Resurrection Men

By: T. K. Welsh

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Synopsis: Welsh, author of The Unresolved, spins an intricate and chilling story of greed, malevolence, and redemption based on the body-snatcher trials that were held in London in 1831. [From the inside book flap:] "The body-matchers, they have come, And made a snatch at me, It's very hard them kind of men Won't let a baby be! London, 1830s, twelve-year-old Victor, an orphan, knows from experience that life is dangerous, and death by disease or accident is common. But to Mr. Tipple and Mr. Biggs, these streets--teeming with the poor and forgotten--are a paradise. They know that a child, once dead, is a commodity, and they are growing impatient.... In this tumultuous dark underworld, where a "fresh subject" can fetch as much as nine guineas--the yearly salary of a workingman--Victor must risk his life to uncover the identity of the ghoulish murderer who is at the very heart of London's furtive trade in human corpses." This is a gripping adventure story, based on fact of Victor, an orphan boy's desperate struggle to survive among the impoverished in the 1830's when children were kidnapped and used, both alive and dead for experimentation. Victor First as a cabin boy, then as a begging cripple, overcomes poverty. Contains graphic violence.