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The Man who Would be Sherlock - The Real Life Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle (Hardcover)
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The Man who Would be Sherlock - The Real Life Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle (Hardcover)
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When Arthur Conan Doyle was a lonely 7-year-old schoolboy at
pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a French emigre named
Eugene Chantrelle was engaged there to teach Modern Languages. A
few years later, Chantrelle would be hanged for the particularly
grisly murder of his wife, marking the beginning of Conan Doyle's
own association with some of the bloodiest crimes of the Victorian
and Edwardian eras. This early link between actual crime and the
greatest detective story writer of all time is one of many. Conan
Doyle would also go on to play a leading role in the notorious case
of the young Anglo-Indian lawyer George Edalji, convicted and
imprisoned as the 'mad ripper' who supposedly prowled the fields
around his Staffordshire home by night looking for animals to
mutilate; and the equally chilling story of Oscar Slater and his
alleged murder of an elderly spinster as she sat in her Glasgow
home one winter's night in 1908, a crime with a spectacular
denouement 18 years later. Using freshly available evidence and
eyewitness testimony, Christopher Sandford follows these links and
draws out the connections between Conan Doyle's literary output and
factual criminality, a pattern that will enthral and surprise the
legions of Sherlock Holmes fans. In a sense, Conan Doyle wanted to
be Sherlock - to be a man who could bring order and justice to a
terrible world.
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