The Anatomists
By Hal McDonald
3/5
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If they want to truly learn about the human body, London medical students Edward Montague and Jean-Claude Legard have no choice but to become common criminals. The authorities have long looked the other way as budding anatomists dug up fresh graves. But Edward and Jean-Claude still greet the task of defiling the final resting place of Abigail Darcy with unease, especially when they discover that the cadaver stolen from the graveyard is not the late Mrs. Darcy but a man—and that he's been murdered!
Utterly baffled and seeking justice, Edward and Jean-Claude begin an investigation into Mrs. Darcy's life and death, hoping to find out how a young man met his terrible fate and ended his days in her coffin. It's a search that leads to adultery, betrayal, and more than one suspicious death—and a final, paralyzing encounter with a cold-blooded killer.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Edward Montague and Jean-Claude Legard are medical students in London. The time is the early 1800's and medical cadavers are hard to come by...legally that is...After hiring a young resurrectionist, the doctors in training learn that the robbed grave was host to the wrong body. They take it upon themselves to discover who this body belonged to and where the original grave owner has gotten to.This is the premise of The Anatomists, from author Hal McDonald.The Anatomists reads as a Sherlock Holmes type of mystery, with roommate Jean-Claude Legard playing Holmes against Edward Montague's Watson. While this works for the era of the story, it has the unfortunate effect of the reader being told what happened as opposed to discovering what happens.The plot, itself, is quite intricate with many twists and turns along the way to its conclusion, some that are given away a bit to early and many that are surmised far to easily by the Legard character who often decides upon the "answer" with no lead-in to how he could possibly have come to that conclusion.All that being said, The Anatomists is a fun story if the reader can take himself back in time a bit as a reader and imagine reading this book in the era the story takes place as opposed to 2008.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Okay so I started readingthis book and it was a slow start but I managed to get into it and finish the book enjoyed the storyline in a non urgent way (meaning I liked it but I wasn't jumping up to reach the book every 10 sec. to read it. It has a great ending though! finished July 15th 2011
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Story: Jean and Edward are your typical medical students circa the early 1800's in London. Having studied for some time at St. Albans medical school they have come to the point of having to do their own "hands on" research. Unfortunatley in this time there is no such thing as medically donated cadavers and they have to procure a recentley deceased body from the local "resurrectionist". They employ a local lad who does the deed but they notice that the body they received died by someone's hand and not natural causes. In an attempt to bring what they thing think is a common thug to justice, they track down the man that found the body for them and and find themselves in the middle of mystery that could leave them with a case of rigor mortis if they aren't very careful. ------- To start off I did enjoy this book by the end of it. It was just the getting there that was the problem. The characters talk like they proably would have talked back them, very verbose, very big words thrown in there and a *lot* of speculation back and forth between the two main characters. The idea (and I'm sure it was the point) is that this is a slightly more moderen sherlock and watson, which can be slightly annoying sometimes when it gets to be obvious that Jean is the fast / smart one and Edward is the slow / everyman one. For the most part it works and there a bunch of twists and turns to keep the reader guessing and the last two chapters make up for the long road it took to get there. I would recommend this book to those who like the History in their Historical mystery books and for those like their mysteries to have a lot of twists and turns in them. m.a.c
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Read about half. Just couldn't get into it. Yawn.