The dark of hangman's wynd

by James C. Whorton

Edinburgh, 1826: Corpses begin to turn up in Hangman's Wynd, one of the many dank alleyways that coil through the city's Old Town. Initially, the deaths are attributed to cholera morbus, an intestinal ailment rife among the residents of the Old Town's squalid tenements. But to David Arnesen, a professor at the city's medical school, it seems beyond chance that the victims are all prostitutes and that they die of the same symptoms in the same out-of-the-way...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500705403
• ISBN13: 9781500705404
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"