Book Description
Nineteenth century crime and punishment in Edinburgh.
Author : David Brandon
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1445628074
Nineteenth century crime and punishment in Edinburgh.
Author : Lisa Rosner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0812203550
Up the close and down the stair, Up and down with Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the man who buys the beef. —anonymous children's song On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Days later, police discovered her remains in the surgery of the prominent anatomist Dr. Robert Knox. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century, outflanking even Jack the Ripper's. Together with their accomplices, Burke and Hare would be accused of killing sixteen people over the course of twelve months in order to sell the corpses as "subjects" for dissection. The ensuing criminal investigation into the "Anatomy Murders" raised troubling questions about the common practices by which medical men obtained cadavers, the lives of the poor in Edinburgh's back alleys, and the ability of the police to protect the public from cold-blooded murder. Famous among true crime aficionados, Burke and Hare were the first serial killers to capture media attention, yet The Anatomy Murders is the first book to situate their story against the social and cultural forces that were bringing early nineteenth-century Britain into modernity. In Lisa Rosner's deft treatment, each of the murder victims, from the beautiful, doomed Mary Paterson to the unfortunate "Daft Jamie," opens a window on a different aspect of this world in transition. Tapping into a wealth of unpublished materials, Rosner meticulously portrays the aspirations of doctors and anatomists, the makeshift existence of the so-called dangerous classes, the rudimentary police apparatus, and the half-fiction, half-journalism of the popular press. 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.
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1800467818
Which of Edinburgh’s most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, by the Demon Frenchman of George Street, by the Triple Killer of Falcon Avenue, or perhaps by one of the Capital’s many faceless, spectral slayers
Author : Alanna Knight
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781902927398
oIn 1923, Philip Murray went to the gallows for a brutal murder in Jamaica Street, thanks to a local prostitute turning King's evidence. oIn the late 1970s, two girls went missing from the World's End pub never to be seen alive again -case unsolved. oIn the late 1990s a young woman met a terrifying end in South Clerk Street - case unsolved. These horrendous crimes have one thing in common. They all happened in Edinburgh. Edinburgh has a famously blood thirsty history. In centuries past the High Street ran with gore as clansmen battled to the death, and criminals were gruesomely hung, drawn and quartered at the Tolbooth. Lesser known, however, are the terrible crimes that have been committed in the last century. In 1954 Donald Merrett walked free after cold-bloodedly murdering his mother, only to return in the 1970s under an assumed name and kill again. A grim pattern followed by Donald Forbes who, acquitted of a terrible murder in 1958, returned to Edinburgh 40 years later to continue his rein of terror in another death. Edinburgh's Murder Mile offers a fascinating selection of the most notorious murders of the last century within a mile radius of Edinburgh's famous Princes Street.Alanna Knight - one of Edinburgh's favourite crime authors - revisits the crime scenes and unravels the fascinating details of the police investigations, posing new questions and offering a new perspective on famous and lesser known cases. Join her on a chilling, unforgettable trip through the damp, shadowy secrets of Edinburgh's streets.
Author : R. Michael Gordon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786454563
Body snatchers and grave robbers were the stuff of Victorian lore, but two real-life culprits took the crimes out of shadowy cemeteries and into criminal court. William Burke and William Hare aided Scottish surgeons competing for anatomical breakthroughs by experimenting on human corpses. As the duo evolved from petty theft to premeditated murder, they unwittingly brought attention to the medical practices of the era, leading to Burke's death by hanging. This account not only explores the work of the resurrectionists, it reflects the nature of serial killers, 1820s criminal law, and Edinburgh's early role as a seat of European medical research. Readers interested in the legal aspects of these crimes will find the trial testimony included to be a valuable resource.
Author : Anna-Marie Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 2020-11-20
Category :
ISBN :
A newly-retired detective from the Met is murdered in a murky alley in Edinburgh, a sinister calling card left with the body. The dead man had been a close friend of psychologist Tasha Phillips, giving her her first gig with the Met decades before. Tasha begs DI Yvonne Giles to aid the Scottish police in solving the case. In unfamiliar territory, and with a ruthless killer haunting the streets, the DI plunges herself into one of the darkest, most terrifying cases of her career. Who exactly is The Poet?
Author : Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0199766827
Vividly illustrated, The Doctor Dissected examines the the sensational serial killings--known as the Anatomy Murders--that roiled Scotland in the early nineteenth century and considers their checkered afterlife in novels, plays, and films.
Author : Allan Massie
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : D-L Nelson
Publisher : Third-Culture Kid Mystery
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645990253
Annie Young-Perret goes undercover at the Edinburgh, Scotland office of a multi-national insurance company to investigate the suspicious hit-and-run death of her school friend Chantal's husband, Duncan. Meantime, other company employees are murdered in Boston, Colorado Springs and Saint Petersburg, Russia by a serial killer who delights in finding original ways to kill her victims. Joining the search are Annie's retired French police chief husband, Roger; a writer from the new Early Scottish Poets Museum for which Chantal is curator; a coworker of Duncan's; and two off-duty Edinburgh police. When the insurance company CEO learns of their inquiries, he orders a contract on a new target.
Author : Owen Dudley Edwards
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2014-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781780272177
In a boarding house in the West Port area of 1820's Edinburgh, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. He owes the landlord £4 rent. Instead of burying the body, the landlord and his friend—one William Hare and William Burke, both Irish—fill the coffin with bark and sell the corpse to Dr. Robert Knox, an ambitious Edinburgh anatomist. Burke and Hare make a profit of £3 and 10 shillings. After this encouraging start, Burke and Hare decide to suffocate another sickly tenant, so beginning the criminal career of the most notorious double act in serial killing that would only end on the gallows with the worst kind of betrayal. It's a true tale of desperation and greed, of outsiders, ambition, corruption, love, and betrayal.