Previously published.: Edinburgh : Polygon, 1980. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
In a boarding house in West Port, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. Instead of burying the body, the landlord, William Hare, and his friend, William Burke, fill the coffin with bark and sell the corpse to Dr. Robert Knox, an ambitious Edinburgh anatomist.
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