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The Court of Cacus; Or, The Story of Burke and Hare

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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$4.99
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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

  1. 1THE COURT OF CACUS;
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4First Appearance in Surgeon’s Square.
  5. 5Intercalary.
  6. 6The Young Amateurs
  7. 7The Regular Staff.
  8. 8Sympathising Sextons, Doctors, and Relatives.
  9. 9Preying on each other
  10. 10Resumption of the Great Drama.
  11. 11The Quaternion.
  12. 12The Opening of the Court—The Old Woman of Gilmerton.[5]
  13. 13The Mother and Daughter.
  14. 14The Grandmother and the Dumb Boy.
  15. 15The Stray Waifs
  16. 16The Relative.
  17. 17The Study for the Artist.
  18. 18Daft Jamie.

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