Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer

by Margalit Fox

Book Overview

"A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it's about so much more than crime."--Tana French, author of In the Woods

One of USA Today's "Five new books you won't want to miss "

For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no recent book that tells this remarkable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399589457
• ISBN13: 9780399589454
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"