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
Biographies, Loi et crime (biographies)
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
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 obvious 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. Fox 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. 2018.