An account of how counterfeiter Benjamin Boyd's gang stole the body of Abraham Lincoln and demanded Boyd's release from jail and two hundred thousand dollars as ransom and the efforts of the Secret Service to recover the remains.
In London during the 1830s, twelve-year-old orphan Victor begins to realize that men are purposely infecting children with a sickness so they can sell the dead bodies to scientists, and sets out to uncover the man behind the deadly crime.
When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.
A humorous presentation of facts about the medical profession in the early nineteenth century, and how the crime of body snatching developed in response to the demand for bodies to study.
Examines burial customs and attitudes toward death through the ages and discusses magical, religious, economic, scientific, and political motives for body snatching and grave robbing.
Examines the likely origins of stories of the undead, discussing such frightening creatures as zombies, walking mummies, and the infamous Frankenstein.
When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.
a tale of murder and body snatching in 1830s London
Wise, Sarah
2004
Reconstructs the events surrounding the murder of a young boy in London in 1831 and investigates the trade in human corpses carried out by body snatchers who would rob graves or commit murder to supply medical colleges with fresh cadavers.
