Conan Doyle for the defense : the true story of a sensational British murder, a quest for justice, a...
Conan Doyle for the defense : the true story of a sensational British murder, a quest for justice, a...
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 / Margalit Fox.
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Publisher
New York : Random House, [2018]
Call Numbers
G 2019/2843
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxvii, 319 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Random House, [2018]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
"In 1908 an elderly woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow apartment. The police found a convenient but innocent suspect in Oscar Slater--a Jewish cardsharp--who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already the world-famous creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the...
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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 / Margalit Fox.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-308) and index.
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G 2019/2843
Record Identifier
74VKVxveyagM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVxveyagM
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ISBN
9780399589454 hardcover
0399589457 hardcover
DDC
364.1523094144
MMS ID
991024245919202626
