# The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

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- Authors: [Peter Ackroyd](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-ackroyd)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9952-413-7
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2009-04-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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....