BURKE AND HARE The Story of a Terrible Partnership

Trade size softcover. No. 6 in the Mellifont Celebrated Crime Series, published during the 1930s. The horrifying story of William Burke and William Hare involved in the callous commercial trafficking in the sale of the bodies of their murder victims, to the medical profession, in Edinburgh in the late 1820s. 96pp. trade size softcover, paper wraps. The sl. larger 1st edn. was published at 3d., the smaller reprint was published at 9d. With the usual browned pp. o/w Nr. F. Extremely Scarce.