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ISBNs | 978-5-00139-071-8 |
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The weight | 0,5 kg |
Size | 215 × 145 mm |
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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, convicted of the murder of a wealthy lady. Sentenced to death, which was later commuted to hard labor for life, Slater spent more than 18 years in prison, forgotten by almost everyone. Almost everyone, but not Arthur Conan Doyle. The writer managed to free Slater by conducting his own investigation, and his main weapons were observation and clear logic - exactly what brought worldwide fame to the hero of his stories. The book tells about a man sentenced to death, whose innocence was proved without modern forensic methods, and about a unique method of investigation, described in the Sherlock Holmes stories, and then applied to a real crime.