Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about what we have yet to read. Generally they are books that have yet to be released, but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine.
Release Date: June 26th, 2018
Author: Margalit Fox
Author: Margalit Fox
Genre: Non-Fiction
Pages: 352
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.
Why I'm Waiting: I am a huge Sherlock Holmes fan, and Arthur Conan Doyle was such a strange man. He really had a strange and interesting life. So I'm excited to get my hands on this book!
Looks good, and I had no idea Conan Doyle did that. How fascinating!
ReplyDeleteMe either, I'm excited to get my hands on this one!
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