"A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes .
Though he was know.
After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater, an immigrant Jewish cardsharp.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue--a True story.
A scandalous wrongful conviction.
Like all the best historical True crime books, it\'s about so much more than crime."--Tana French, author of In the Woods A Sensational Edwardian murder. . . "A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes