The Body Snatcher (Paperback)

A young man studying medicine in Edinburgh, is asked by his professor to be responsible for receiving the cadavers to be dissected by the school's student. Though he knows many are stolen from graves, he keeps his silence. Then one night h recognizes one of the cadavers is the victim of murder But instead of turning in the culprit, he allows himself to be drawn deeper into the gruesome intrigue. But justice has the last laugh when the evidence of the man's crimes -- evidence he thought long since disected and disposed of -- mysteriously resurfaces to his everlasting horror.

A suspense-filled tale of horror by the author of D??? Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, illustrated with 12 full-page black-and-white pictures.