Edinburgh's Burke and Hare were the first serial killers to capture media attention, accused of killing 16 people in order to sell their cadavers as "subjects" for dissection. The Anatomy Murders resurrects a tale of murder and medicine in a city whose grand Georgian squares and crescents stood beside a maze of slums, a place in which a dead body was far more valuable than a living laborer.
Summary
Edinburgh's Burke and Hare were the first serial killers to capture media attention, accused of killing 16 people in order to sell their cadavers as "subjects" for dissection. The Anatomy Murders resurrects a tale of murder and medicine in a city whose grand Georgian squares and crescents stood beside a maze of slums, a place in which a dead body was far more valuable than a living laborer.