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 /
"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"--
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.