The Court of Cacus; Or, The Story of Burke and Hare

The Court of Cacus or The Story of Burke and Hare is a historically accurate and ornately written book about the story of Burke and Hare. The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen killings committed for about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.