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The Court of Cacus; Or, The Story of Burke and Hare
Alexander Leighton
282 pages~5 hr 37 min read28 chapters$1.99
Burke and Hare did not rob graves; they simply made fresh corpses to sell. Alexander Leighton tells the notorious story of the Edinburgh murderers who supplied the anatomists, and the trade that made them. A gripping true-crime chapter from the dark side of medical history. Read the case that horrified a city and reformed the law.
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28 chapters
- 1THE COURT OF CACUS;
- 2PREFACE.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4First Appearance in Surgeon’s Square.
- 5Intercalary.
- 6The Young Amateurs
- 7The Regular Staff.
- 8Sympathising Sextons, Doctors, and Relatives.
- 9Preying on each other
- 10Resumption of the Great Drama.
- 11The Quaternion.
- 12The Opening of the Court—The Old Woman of Gilmerton.[5]
- 13The Mother and Daughter.
- 14The Grandmother and the Dumb Boy.
- 15The Stray Waifs
- 16The Relative.
- 17The Study for the Artist.
- 18Daft Jamie.
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