The body-snatcher

Graphic Novel 2014

In this graphic retelling of a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, a young medical student in nineteenth century Edinburgh accepts corpses for dissection that were stolen from fresh graves--until one day he recognizes the corpse as a friend who was murdered.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Body snatcher Adaptations