The Flesh Market
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"Doon the wynds an' up the streets,Where revenants sought souls tae eat,The Butcher called for twitching meatAn' Burke an' Hare did answer."-anon.1827. A year after the Cadaver Riots tore the heart from Edinburgh. Fear still chokes the Old Town, for though the revenants were driven back with shot and steel they yet lurk in the city's shadowed closes. When night falls, they strike.In dissecting rooms anatomists slice twitching flesh as they dream of cures and glory. For the greatest among them, Robert Knox, there is no price that cannot be met in the quest for knowledge. Behind closed doors he trades in walking death, dealing with devils to keep the flesh market amidst the slums of 19th Century Edinburgh and the ivory towers of its academia, The Flesh Market is an almost true story of murder, mad science, obsession, and the restless dead."The setting is absorbing and vivid, the period fascinating and the distant echoes of this factual case are compelling in themselves, but it is the characters who bring this story to life. For a tale so concerned with death, it's bursting with human vitality." - J.J. Marsh, Bookmuse ()
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Wright, R. (2016). The Flesh Market. Richard Wright.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Wright, Richard. 2016. The Flesh Market. Richard Wright.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Wright, Richard, The Flesh Market. Richard Wright, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Wright, Richard. The Flesh Market. Richard Wright, 2016.
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