Title:
Conan Doyle for the defense :
the true story of a sensational British murder, a quest for justice, and the world's most famous detective writer
Author:
Fox, Margalit,
ISBN:
9780399589454
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Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Language:
English
Custom PUBDATE:
2018
Place of publication:
New York : Random House, [2018]
Publication Date:
2018
Summary:
"In 1908, a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home. The police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater--an immigrant Jewish cardsharp--who, despite his innocence, was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor in a brutal Scottish prison. Conan Doyle, already world famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Using the methods of his most famous character, he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and eyewitness statements, meticulously noting myriad holes, inconsistencies, and outright fabrications by police andprosecutors. Finally, in 1927, his work won Slater's freedom."--
Abstract:
"In 1908, a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home. The police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater--an immigrant Jewish cardsharp--who, despite his innocence, was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor in a brutal Scottish prison. Conan Doyle, already world famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Using the methods of his most famous character, he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and eyewitness statements, meticulously noting myriad holes, inconsistencies, and outright fabrications by police andprosecutors. Finally, in 1927, his work won Slater's freedom."-- Provided by publisher.
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Books
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