Why a Booktrail?
1828: The time for retribution has come.
Mrs Burke & Mrs Hare
Why a Booktrail?
1828: The time for retribution has come.
What you need to know before your trail
In the shadowy closes of Edinburgh’s Old Town, sixteen people are murdered to feed surgeon Dr Robert Knox’s insatiable need for his anatomy classes. Burke and Hare and their wives, Lucky and Nelly, are all complicit, but only Burke swings for their crimes. Lucky, Nelly and Hare go on the run from the angry mob, reinvention their only means of survival.
Years later, journalist Duncan Fletcher hears rumours of sightings of the two women. Keen to impress his editor, Duncan investigates the aftermath of the murder trial. With cobbler Joseph Campbell in tow, Duncan’s quest leads him to the backstreets of London, where the horrors of the past collide with the present.
Travel Guide
Edinburgh
The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen murders committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh.
William Burke and William Hare sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures. A tour of this side of Edinburgh would be interesting! Taking in graveyards to churches, to alleyways and the cobbled streets, this tour is a trail of the darkest places and times in the city’s history.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Mrs Burke & Mrs Hare
Destination/location: Edinburgh, Maddiston Author/guide: Michelle Sloan Departure Time: 1828
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