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Burke and Hare by Owen Dudley Edwards

Burke and Hare

Owen Dudley Edwards

294 pages first pub 1980 (view editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime challenging reflective medium-paced
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At Christmastide, 1827, in a boarding house in Edinburgh’s West Port, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. He owes the landlord £4 rent. Instead of burying the body, the landlord, William Hare, and his friend William Burke fill the coffin...

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