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PUBLISHER: Galley Beggar
ISBN: 9781910296202
PAGES: 1 volume.
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The Body Snatcher
This atmospheric evocation of early 19th century Edinburgh is made all the more thrilling by the knowledge that it is a fictional account of a series of real murders and the astonishing, grisly career of Burke and Hare, men who killed people in order to provide corpses for dissection in anatomy lectures.
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