Conan Doyle for the defence : a sensational murder, the quest for justice and the world's greatest detective writer
Fox, Margalit2019
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Just before Christmas 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy 82-year-old spinster, was found bludgeoned to death in her Glasgow home. A valuable diamond brooch was missing, and police soon fastened on a suspect - Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant who was rumoured to have a disreputable character. Slater had an alibi, but was nonetheless convicted and sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment in the notorious Peterhead Prison. Seventeen years later, a convict called William Gordon was released from Peterhead. Concealed in a false tooth was a message, addressed to the only man Slater thought could help him - Arthur Conan Doyle. Always a champion of the downtrodden, Conan Doyle turned his formidable talents to freeing Slater, deploying a forensic mind worthy of Sherlock Holmes.
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Author:
Fox, Margalit, author
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2019.
Collation:
xxvii, 318 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
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Originally published: 2018.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781781253571 (pbk)9781782831105 (ebook)
Dewey class:
364.1'523'09411
Language:
English
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BRN:
392144
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