The Italian boy

a tale of murder and body snatching in 1830s London

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.

Metropolitan Books
2004
9780805075373
book

Holdings

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1309997497564923194924385676PEHS370PEHS35721364.1 Wis364.115814652241736518457