Conan Doyle for the Defence - Margalit Fox

• Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• 318 pages
• Non-Fiction: True Crime, History

In December 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy eighty-two-year-old spinster, was found bludgeoned to death in her Glasgow home. There were no signs of forced entry, but a valuable diamond brooch was missing.

In 1925, a convict was released from Scotland's Peterhead Prison bearing a piece of waterproof paper, minutely folded and concealed in his mouth. It was a message from Oscar Slater, the man who had spent nearly sixteen years in Peterhead for Gilchrist's murder. Desperate, Slater appealed for help to the one man he believed could prove his innocence: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.