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Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner's office provides the corpses he needs - but they have often died by violent means and are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. And, from Limehouse, makes contact with the Doomesday Men - the resurrectionists. Victor pays better than any hospital for the bodies of the very recently dead. Even so, perfect specimens are hard to come by... until that Thames-side dawn when Victor, waiting, wrapped in his greatcoat, on his wooden jetty, hears the splashing of oars and sees in the half-light that slung into the stern of the approaching boat is the corpse of a handsome young man, one hand trailing in the water.
ISBN | 9780099524137 |
Categories | Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fiction |
Author(s) | Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | Vintage Books |
Pages | 408 |
Format | Paperback |
Dimensions | 19.7cm x 2.6cm x 13cm |
Weight | 0.31 kg |