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Books about William Burke:

• The Court of Cacus: or, The Story of Burke and Hare (London: Houlston and Wright; Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, 1861), by Alexander Leighton
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal, Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on Wednesday, December 24, 1828, for the Murder of Margery Campbell, or Docherty (Edinburgh: R. Buchanan; et al., 1829), ed. by John Macnee (page images at HathiTrust)
• West Port Murders: or, An Authentic Account of the Atrocious Murders Committed By Burke and His Associates, Containing a Full Account of All The Extraordinary Circumstances Connected With Them (Edinburgh: T. Ireland, 1829)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Burke and Hare (Edinburgh and London: W. Hodge and Co., 1921), ed. by William Roughead (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of Burke and Hare, and of the Resurrectionist Times: A Fragment from the Criminal Annals of Scotland (Glasgow: T. D. Morison; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1884), by George Mac Gregor
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

Books by William Burke:

Books in the extended shelves:

• Burke, William, 1792-1829: Burke and Hare (Hodge, 1921), also by William Roughead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Burke, William, 1792-1829: Burke and Hare (John Day, 1927), also by William Roughead, William Hare, and Helen M'Dougal (page images at HathiTrust)

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