The Resurrection Club by Christopher Wallace
The Resurrection Club by Christopher Wallace, published by Flamingo (1999) If you like graveyards and the weird tales associated with them, you'll like this Gothic novel set in Edinburgh. There are two directly connected strands, the first set in 1827 involving the maverick surgeon Alexander Brodie, who is developing a medical instrument to capture the soul. He is acclaimed as a medical genius, but his methods leave much to answer for. Like many surgeons of the time, he relies on buying bodies from grave robbers, or resurrectionists as they were known. He not only turns a blind eye to murder, but is actively involved when it suits his cause. The second story is in the present day (1999 when the story was published). Charlie Kidd is a PR guru tasked with promoting an unusual artistic experience at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The creator of the show, Peter Dexter, has rediscovered Brodie's contraption and aims to use it to raise the dead. To do so he needs the help of gulli...