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 (Author)
"In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2018
First U.S. edition View all formats and editions
Random House, New York, 2018
True crime stories
xxvii, 319 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
9780399589454, 9780399589478, 0399589457, 0399589473
1030445407
Prologue: Prisoner 2988
Book one: Diamonds. A footfall on the stair ; The mysterious Mr. Anderson ; The knight-errant ; The man in the Donegal cap
Book two: Blood. Traces ; The original Sherlock Holmes ; The art of reasoning backward ; A case of identity
Book three: Granite. The trap door ; "Until he be dead" ; The cold cruel sea ; Arthur Conan Doyle, consulting detective ; The strange case of George Edalji ; Prisoner 1992
Book four: Paper. "You know my method" ; The ruin of John Thomson Trench ; Cannibals included ; The purloined brooch ; The gates of Peterhead ; More light, more justice ; The knight and the knave
Epilogue: What became of them