An Eye for a Killing: 1. The Trial On Christmas Eve
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The Life and Crimes of William Hairs
Edinburgh was on the frontiers of a country, with ordinary life in Edinburgh having not just dogs getting under your feet or horses around the place. But at the same time you had these various farm animals and people making quite a bit of money out of them. Everything would tend to be clamped rather well together. There were some houses like Deacon Brody's whose front door would have been in what's now the lawn market down from the castle. So you could see that is almost a metaphor for Edinburgh itself, that you had the poorer people and the richer people,. The unemployed and lowly vagrants or casual workers, and above them people of very distinguished and possibly learned and certainly wealthy
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