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050	0	0	_aHV9960.G72 _bG533 2018
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100	1		_aFox, Margalit, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aConan Doyle for the defense : _bthe true story of a sensational British murder, a quest for justice, and the world's most famous detective writer / _cMargalit Fox.
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c[2018]
300			_axxvii, 319 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 265-308) and index.
510	4		_aLibrary Journal, _cMay 01, 2018
510	4		_aPublishers Weekly, _cApril 16, 2018
510	4		_aBooklist, _cMay 15, 2018
510	4		_aPublishers Weekly Starred Reviews
520			_a"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. For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no American book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an actual murder case. In Conan Doyle for the Defense, Margalit Fox takes us step-by-step inside Conan Doyle's investigative process and illuminates a murder mystery that is also a morality play for our time--a story of ethnic, religious, and anti-immigrant bias. In 1908, a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home. The police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater--an immigrant Jewish cardsharp--who, despite his innocence, was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor in a brutal Scottish prison. Conan Doyle, already world famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Using the methods of his most famous character, he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and eyewitness statements, meticulously noting myriad holes, inconsistencies, and outright fabrications by police and prosecutors. Finally, in 1927, his work won Slater's freedom. Margalit Fox, a celebrated longtime writer for The New York Times, has "a nose for interesting facts, the ability to construct a taut narrative arc, and a Dickens-level gift for concisely conveying personality" (Kathryn Schulz, New York). In Conan Doyle for the Defense, she immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection and illuminates a watershed moment in the history of forensics, when reflexive prejudice began to be replaced by reason and the scientific method"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"In 1908 an elderly woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow apartment. The police found a convenient but innocent suspect in Oscar Slater--a Jewish cardsharp--who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already the world-famous creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Over the years he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and police diaries, meticulously noting myriad holes and inconsistencies. Finally, in 1927, his work won Slater's freedom. Conan Doyle for the Defense immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection, telling the story of how Conan Doyle managed to get this murder conviction overturned by employing the methods of his most famous creation. Along the way, Fox illuminates a watershed moment in the history of criminal justice when reflexive prejudice began gradually to be replaced by reason and the scientific method"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aDoyle, Arthur Conan, _d1859-1930.
650		0	_aDiscrimination in criminal justice administration _zScotland _zGlasgow
650		0	_aDetectives _zScotland _zGlasgow.
650		0	_aMurder _zScotland _zGlasgow.
650		0	_aCriminal investigation _zScotland _zGlasgow.
650		0	_aForensic sciences _zScotland _zGlasgow.
650		0	_aVindication _zScotland _zGlasgow.
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