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How Sherlock’s creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle unravelled a REAL murder and saved a man who had wrongly spent 16 years in jail for killing an 82-year-oldBy Nick Rennison For The Daily Mail TRUE CRIME CONAN DOYLE FOR THE DEFENCE by Margalit Fox (Profile £16.99)On January 25, 1925, a prisoner was released from Peterhead jail in Scotland. Concealed beneath his dentures, so the prison authorities could not find it, was an urgent note from a fellow convict.It included a message for one of the most famous men in the world — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.Oscar Slater, the man who sent the message, had already spent 16 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (pictured) is most famous for creating Sherlock Holmes but he also helped to clear a man of murder.Read more at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-5898233/How-Sherlocks-creator-Sir-Arthur-Conan-Doyle-unravelled-REAL-murder.html