Title: very interesting
Product review: Four stars only because the style of the writing seemed to overlap sometimes, and it seemed to me that a chronological organization may have made more sense. Otherwise, it's an interesting peek into Edinburgh's criminal world, and particularly at what pushed the famous William Burke and William Hare and their wives to murder people to sell the bodies to medical researchers. The book focuses mostly on the murders/murderers (despite the title), but does explore why smaller crimes were tolerated at such a high rate of occurrence, and why, in this spirit of tolerance, these murders were considered so horrible.
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