Seeking Mr Hare

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On the 7th of February 1829 the notorious Irish mass murderer & 'resurrectionist' William Hare (of Burke & Hare infamy) was freed from a Scottish gaol, put on a coach to Carlisle, left on the roadside there & subsequently disappeared from human view as if he had never existed. His fellow conspirator & provider of fresh 'meat' for the Edinburgh surgeons' operating tables had earlier been hanged, but fearing the mob's vengeance, the authorities had freed Hare hoping he would vanish for ever, little knowing that his name along with the nature of his terrible crimes would reverberate & live on even if his subsequent history did not. Seeking Mr Hare takes up the story where our pariah flees his past through the Northern English countryside & finally across to Irel&. Joining forces with Hannah, a young mute farm-girl, on the way, the pair travel from one adventure in survival to the next, all the while pursued by Percy Speed, a retired London enquiry agent hired by his noble employer to track down a life-mask of Hare for his private cabinet of curiosities. However when Lord Beckford loses interest in the quest, Speed doggedly carries on, determined to come face to face with his cunning & elusive quarry, no matter what the quest costs & where it leads him.