The Resource Conan Doyle for the defence : a sensational murder, the quest for justice and the world's greatest detective writer, Margalit Fox
Conan Doyle for the defence : a sensational murder, the quest for justice and the world's greatest detective writer, Margalit Fox
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxvii, 318 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Originally published: 2018
- Isbn
- 9781781253571
- Label
- Conan Doyle for the defence : a sensational murder, the quest for justice and the world's greatest detective writer
- Title
- Conan Doyle for the defence
- Title remainder
- a sensational murder, the quest for justice and the world's greatest detective writer
- Statement of responsibility
- Margalit Fox
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fox, Margalit
- Dewey number
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- 364.1'523'09411
- 364.152309411
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Slater, Oscar
- Gilchrist, Marion
- Murder
- Judicial error
- Crime
- Label
- Conan Doyle for the defence : a sensational murder, the quest for justice and the world's greatest detective writer, Margalit Fox
- Note
- Originally published: 2018
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781781253571
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- xxvii, 318 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781781253571
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)
- Label
- Conan Doyle for the defence : a sensational murder, the quest for justice and the world's greatest detective writer, Margalit Fox
- Note
- Originally published: 2018
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781781253571
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- xxvii, 318 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781781253571
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)
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