We did sell out of the book, so I was pleased with Blackwell’s as a venue.”
“Just a stone’s throw away, so that’s a bit spooky. That’s pretty much where the city mortuary is, isn’t it? When they were around, Surgeon’s Hall was actually Surgeon Square, behind what’s now High School Yards down to the Cowgate, it was only later that they built Surgeon’s Hall further along.”
“It went really well, and it was at Blackwell’s which is just round the corner from where Hare used to sell the bodies, so it was the ideal place to hold the book launch. Having been at The Scotsman for almost ten years, he still does some work for them as well as The Press & Journal and The Lancet. When I call Peter’s writing a piece for Scottish Field, the drinks blog of which he also he regularly writes. In it Peter imagines that William Hare emigrated to America, where he meets Captain Alexander Gillespie, a Boston police officer originally from Edinburgh. Hare tells the story of the one half of Burke and Hare who got away, with the blessing of the state, for turning King’s Evidence against his partner in crime, William Burke who was executed in 1829. Just before Christmas, a new book hit the shelves giving a new lease of life to infamous serial murderer William Hare, written by Peter Ranscombe, yet another of the scores of our fellow Scotsman refugees, who is carving out a new career as a novelist.
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