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Magical Tome
- First published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Birlinn, Limited
- ISBN
- 9780857907530
Burke & Hare
The outer archives are busy
About this book
In nineteenth-century Scotland, two Irish laborers devised a scheme -- sell unclaimed corpses to the Edinburgh medical community. Their chief buyer was Dr. Robert Knox, whose personal ambition created a voracious need for more human corpses. However, Burke and Hare soon ran out of unclaimed bodies ... so they turned to grave-robbing and eventually murder as a money-making enterprise.
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Horror / Dark Elements
Romance
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LGBTQ+ Representation
Social & Political Themes in Stories