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Random House. New. Random House, 2018-06-26 New A retired senior writer at The New York Times, Margalit Fox is considered one the foremost explanatory writers and literary stylists in American journalism As a longtime member of the newspaper's celebrated Obituary News Department, she has written the front-page public sendoffs of some of the leading cultural figures of our age (Conan Doyle for the Defense is in many ways a fond belated obituary-for the long-overlooked Oscar Slater, an immigrant Everyman treated inexcusably by history) Fox's previous book, The Riddle of the Labyrinth, won the William Saroyan Prize for International Writing She lives in Manhattan with her husband, the writer and critic George RobinsonFor all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no recent 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 biasIn 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, ...

ISBN10: 0399589457, ISBN13: 9780399589454, [publisher: Random House Publishing Group] Hardcover Condition: Very Good, Pages: 352, Size: 21.8x14.9x3.8
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New York: Random House. Date: 2018. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399589457 . Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 8.5 X 5.9 X 1.3 inches; 352 pages . 2018. Random House ISBN 0399589457 9780399589454 [US]

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