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When Arthur Conan Doyle was a lonely 7-year-old schoolboy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a French émigré 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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Christopher Sandford is the author of 24 books. The Final Over - published by The History Press - is currently in its third printing. Houdini and Conan Doyle: Friends of Genius, Deadly Rivals, the story of the strange relationship between the two greatest public performers of the early twentieth century, was published in 2011. It has recently been in development as a television miniseries. Christopher Sandford's account of John F. Kennedy and his lifelong relationship with Great Britain and the British people will also be published in 2017, the centenary year of Kennedy's birth. Christopher's books have been translated into 18 languages.
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- PublisherThe History Press
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0750965924
- ISBN 13 9780750965927
- BindingHardcover
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