The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body-snatching in 1830s London

A thrilling history of England's great metropolis at a point of great change, told through the story of a young vagrant murdered by "resurrection men."

Before his murder in 1831, the "Italian boy" was one of thousands of orphans on the streets of London, moving among the livestock, hawkers, and con men, begging for pennies. When his body was sold to a London medical college, the suppliers were arrested for murder. Their high-profile trial would unveil London's furtive trade in human corpses...