The Caledonian Mercury - Scottish news, stories and intelligent analysis Mistresses, muses and not so very happy endings
Helen McDougal lived with her lover William Burke in the lodgings in the West Port area of Edinburgh. With William Hare and his bidey-in as a neighbours in the same block, one can only guess at the congenial evenings that were had over a bottle of gin. As Burke and Hare dispatched tenant after tenant, and