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1787713962

Conan Doyle for the defence.

Author: Fox, Margalit.

Author: Logan, Crawford.

Publication year: 2019

Language: English

Media class: Talking book - CD

Classification: 364.1523

Publisher: Bath : Oakhill, 2019.

ISBN: 9781787713963 (CDs) : £42.50

Notes:

Narrated by Crawford Logan.

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.