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The man who would be Sherlock, the real-life adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher Sandford

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The man who would be Sherlock, the real-life adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher Sandford

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

biography

Main title

The man who would be Sherlock

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Oclc number

1078666661

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Christopher Sandford

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the real-life adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle

Summary

"When Arthur Conan Doyle was a lonely seven-year-old schoolboy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh, Scotland, a French migr 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 eighteen years later."--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

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Real-life adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle

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