TY - BOOK AU - Parry,Ambrose TI - A corruption of blood SN - 9781786899859 U1 - 823.92 23/eng/20210921 PY - 2021/// CY - Edinburgh, UK PB - Canongate KW - Simpson, James Young, KW - Fisher, Sarah, KW - Raven, Will, KW - Physicians KW - Fiction KW - 19th century KW - Medical students KW - Scotland KW - Women household employees KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Victoria, 1837-1901 KW - Edinburgh (Scotland) KW - UK & IRL historical fiction KW - UK & IRL crime / mystery fiction KW - Biographical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Medical fiction KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - Historical fiction N2 - Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is pleading for his help to escape the hangman. Back in the townhouse of Dr James Simpson, Sarah Fisher has set her sights on learning to practise medicine. Almost everyone seems intent on dissuading her from this ambition, but when word reaches her that a woman has recently obtained a medical degree despite her gender, Sarah decides to seek her out. Raven's efforts to prove his former adversary's innocence are failing and he desperately needs Sarah's help. Putting their feelings for one another aside, their investigations take them to both extremes of Edinburgh's social divide, where they discover that wealth and status cannot alter a fate written in the blood ER -