Conan Doyle for the Defence - Margalit Fox

Category: Adults, Crime, Documentary, True Crime
Language: English
Keywords: Conan Doyle Marion Gilchrist Murder Oscar Slater

Written by Margalit Fox
Read by Crawford Logan
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

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.