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STEVENSON, Robert Louis

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The body snatcher.

Pall Mall Christmas Extra, 3-12, 1884.

Loosely based upon the notorious crimes of Burke and Hare, who murdered 16 people in 1828 in order to sell their corpses to Scottish anatomist Robert Knox. In Stevenson's story, the anatomist is referred to as Mr. K___, and the main characters are two of Knox's medical students who become entangled in providing corpses for their mentor.



Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology › Fiction