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Mary Paterson, or, The fatal error

Pae, David, 1828-18842015
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A high-Victorian tale of the tragic life, and sorry end, of poor Mary Paterson: her fall from grace, her unhappy loves - and her final grisly demise at the hands of Burke and Hare, the pair who kept Edinburgh's anatomists supplied with freshly manufactured corpses. But the melodrama doesn't stop with Mary lying cold upon the dissecting slab: David Pae's galloping novel, originally serialised in the Dundee People's Journal in 1864 and 1865, hounds Burke and Hare to their capture and trial, leads Burke to the gallows, and thereafter follows Hare and his accomplices to their various just deserts.
Main title:
Mary Paterson, or, The fatal error / David Pae ; edited by Caroline McCracken-Flesher.
Imprint:
Glasgow : ASLS, 2015.
Collation:
504 pages ; 22 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9781906841201 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.8
LC class:
PR5115.P14
Local class:
FD84 PAE
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
Mystery crime fiction murder
BRN:
732511
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