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

Summary: "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"--

Item details

ISBN: 9780399589454
ISBN: 0399589457
ISBN: 9780399589461
Physical Description: print
xxvii, 319 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House, [2018]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-308) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- What became of them.