The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London (2004)

Format: Trade Paperback

ISBN: 9780805078497

Condition: Good

There are bookstore stickers on the cover, and the book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

Before his murder in 1831, the "Italian boy" was one of thousands of orphans on the streets of London, begging among the livestock, hawkers, and con men. When his body was sold to a medical college, the suppliers were arrested for murder. Their high-profile trial would unveil a furtive trade in human corpses carried out by so-called resurrection men who killed to satisfy the first rule of the cadaver market: the fresher the body—or "thing"—the higher the price. - from the back cover