Conan Doyle and the Parson's Son

Download or read book Conan Doyle and the Parson's Son written by Gordon Weaver and published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu. This book was released on 2006 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a detailed account of what became one of the great miscarriages of justice of the 20th century, the arrest, trial and conviction of George Edalji - a South Staffordshire solicitor sentenced to 7 years penal servitude for maiming a horse in 1903. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became an interested party after hearing about the case and his investigations were carried out in the manner of his great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.