The Edinburgh Dungeon

This guide to the Edinburgh Dungeon traces the true crime that shaped it: the trial of William Burke on Christmas Eve, 1828, after months of secret killings carried out with his lodging-house partner William Hare in a cramped room off the Grassmarket. It follows how the case finally broke, and the packed courtroom that sat through the night to hear it. Then it walks you into the Dungeon's own theatrical reenactment of five centuries of the city's darkest crimes.