Conan Doyle For The Defence

Just before Christmas 1908 wealthy 82-year-old spinster Marion Gilchrist was found bludgeoned to death in her Glasgow home. A diamond brooch was missing and police arrested Oscar Slater a Jewish immigrant and gambler. Despite having an alibi Slater was convicted and imprisoned in Peterhead Prison. Seventeen years later convict William Gordon was released from Peterhead. Concealed in a false tooth was a message addressed to Arthur Conan Doyle who turned his formidable talents to freeing Slater ... Drawing on original sources including Oscar Slater's prison letters this is a compelling account of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Scottish history.