Will Starling: A Novel : the Reckoning of Wm. Starling, Esq., a Foundling, Concerning Monstrous Crimes and Infernal Aspirations, with...
- ISBN-10
- 0864926472
- ISBN-13
- 9780864926470
- Category
- Canadian fiction
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- Ian Weir
Description
After years as a battlefield surgeon during the Napoleonic War, Will Starling returns to London in 1816 to build a civilian surgical practice. But when one of the grave-robbers who supplies him with cadavers for dissection is complicit in a murder, Will resolves to find out the truth.
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