Seeking Mr Hare e-bog
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On the 7th of February 1829 the notorious Irish mass murderer and 'resurrectionist' William Hare (of Burke and Hare infamy) was freed from a Scottish gaol, put on a coach to Carlisle, left on the roadside there and subsequently disappeared from human view as if he had never existed. His fellow conspirator and provider of fresh 'meat' for the Edinburgh surgeons' operating tables had earlier been...
E-bog
77,59 DKK
Forlag
Clerkenwell Press
Udgivet
1 august 2013
Længde
238 sider
Genrer
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781847659507
On the 7th of February 1829 the notorious Irish mass murderer and 'resurrectionist' William Hare (of Burke and Hare infamy) was freed from a Scottish gaol, put on a coach to Carlisle, left on the roadside there and subsequently disappeared from human view as if he had never existed. His fellow conspirator and provider of fresh 'meat' for the Edinburgh surgeons' operating tables had earlier been hanged, but fearing the mob's vengeance, the authorities had freed Hare hoping he would vanish for ever, little knowing that his name along with the nature of his terrible crimes would reverberate and live on even if his subsequent history did not.Seeking Mr Hare takes up the story where our pariah flees his past through the Northern English countryside and finally across to Ireland. Joining forces with Hannah, a young mute farm-girl, on the way, the pair travel from one adventure in survival to the next, all the while pursued by Percy Speed, a retired London enquiry agent hired by his noble employer to track down a life-mask of Hare for his private cabinet of curiosities.However when Lord Beckford loses interest in the quest, Speed doggedly carries on, determined to come face to face with his cunning and elusive quarry, no matter what the quest costs and where it leads him.