{"product_id":"burke-and-hare-crime-archive","title":"Burke and Hare (Crime Archive)","description":"112 pp. Burke and Hare were infamous suppliers of corpses to the Edinburgh medical establishment in a reign of terror from 1828-9. History remembers them as body snatchers, but there is no proof that the pair ever robbed a grave; instead they created fresh corpses by suffocating hand-picked victims. This is just one of the myths exploded by this ‘bloody history’, which features trial reports, confessions, prison records and contemporaries’ accounts. A rich cast of characters includes the pairs’ implicated lovers, Helen and Margaret; Professor Knox who received the bodies; and local victims from ‘Daft Jamie’ to ageing prostitute Mary Haldane. New light is thrown on the bodies trade through a recent find at the National Archives: a confession from John Bishop – perhaps a copycat ‘burker’ – who with Thomas Williams was executed for the murder of the ‘Italian boy’ in 1831.","brand":"The National Archives","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20607272222790,"sku":"2284760","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2284760.jpg?v=1571426564","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/burke-and-hare-crime-archive","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}