Plot

In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.

Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...—Mark Doran <za13@dial.pipex.com>

In 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland, grave robbers provide Dr. Knox with the corpses of the recently deceased. Knox is a professor at the university where medical students take in his every word. He is not only venerated by his students but by his ward and niece Martha, who has returned from her Paris finishing school unexpectedly. He is somewhat arrogant however and is held in contempt by many of his less able colleagues. One of his students, Chris Jackson meets barmaid Mary Patterson when he goes to the tavern to pay off the grave robbers and become involved with her. William Hare and William Burke take to killing lodgers at Burke's house and delivering them to Knox as a means to make money. One of Dr. Knox's colleagues, Dr. Geoffrey Mitchell, begins to suspect the origin of the numerous corpses Hare and Burke provide. When Hare kills Mary in a fit of passion, Jackson discovers her body in the lecture room and he too is killed by the body snatchers. Their scheme begins to unravel quickly leading to their arrest. Knox also has to deal with the fallout of his implicit participation in their scheme.—garykmcd

A highly skilled doctor believes that his duty is to push the medical profession forward but is constantly at odds with his friends n most people around apart from his students who all respect him a lot due to his in depth knowledge of anatomy n physiology. Doc is warned by his two assistants not to buy cadavers from two notorious fellas but he ignores it. Mayb this is his grave mistake cos as an anatomy specialist, he ought to know how the cadavers died.—Fella_shibby@yahoo.com

In 1828, in Edinburgh, Dr. Robert Knox is a skilled professor of anatomy that buy corpses from body snatchers to research and give classes. His assistant Dr. Geoffrey Mitchell, who is dating Dr. Knox's niece Martha Knox, and his student Chris Jackson are responsible for preparing the bodies. When the drunken scoundrels William Burke and William Hare learn that Dr. Knox pays a good amount for fresh corpses, they decide to sell the body of a tenant of Burke's boarding house to cover his debt with Burke. Jackson is in charge to deliver the money to the rascals and meet the drunken prostitute Mary Patterson in the tavern and he falls in unrequited love with her. Burke and Hare make easy money and begin a crime spree to sell the fresh bodies to Dr. Knox. But their lives begin to change when they kill Mary Patterson.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil