Bibliograph

Speakers of the dead, J. Aaron Sanders

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Speakers of the dead, J. Aaron Sanders

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Speakers of the dead

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

J. Aaron Sanders

Summary

The year is 1843; the place: New York City. Aurora reporter Walt Whitman arrives at the Tombs prison yard where his friend Lena Stowe is scheduled to hang for the murder of her husband, Abraham. Walt intends to present evidence on Lena's behalf, but Sheriff Harris turns him away. Lena drops to her death, and Walt vows to posthumously exonerate her. Walt's estranged boyfriend, Henry Saunders, returns to New York, and the two men uncover a link between body-snatching and Abraham's murder: a man named Samuel Clement. To get to Clement, Walt and Henry descend into a dangerous underworld where resurrection men steal the bodies of the recently deceased and sell them to medical colleges. With no legal means to acquire cadavers, medical students rely on these criminals, and Abraham's involvement with the Bone Bill, legislation that would put the resurrection men out of business, seems to have led to his and Lena's deaths

Target audience

adult

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