TITLE:
Conan Doyle for the defense : how Sherlock Holmes's creator turned real-life detective and freed a man wrongly imprisoned for murder / Margalit Fox.
By:
Publication Date:
2018
Publication Information:
New York : Random House :
Physical Description:
xxvii, 319 p. : ill.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater, an immigrant Jewish cardsharp. Though he was known to be innocent, Slater was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor. Outraged by this injustice, Arthur Conan Doyle, already world renowned as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, used the methods of his most famous character to reinvestigate the case, ultimately winning Slater’s freedom.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780399589478
