By all accounts the reference to Von Bork and Von Herling in His Last Bow is a reference by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Burke And Hare. This according to the exhibiti at the Surgeon's Hall in Edinburgh.
For more information about the Burke and Hare murders visit but be warned that the subject matter is very disturbing.
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders
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Don't make people into heroes John. Heroes don't exist and if they did I wouldn't be one of them.
