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How Sherlock’s creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle unravelled a REAL murder
« on: July 23, 2018, 06:12:15 pm »
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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-old

By 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

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Re: How Sherlock’s creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle unravelled a REAL murder
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2018, 08:56:06 pm »
He also cleared another man of animal mutilations, finding the actual criminal, but bureaucracy prevented justice:

https://britishheritage.com/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-case-of-george-edalji/
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Re: How Sherlock’s creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle unravelled a REAL murder
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2018, 09:43:57 pm »
Who's murder?  Piltdown Man?
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