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

Today, few people know that Conan Doyle, the famous author of detective stories about Sherlock Holmes, was also a famous public figure, defender of the unjustly convicted. Conan Doyle's intervention helped reduce the sentence of his friend charged with treason, restore legality in the high-profile case of an Indian-born Englishman who fell victim to xenophobia, and finally free Oscar Slater, convi...