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The mystery of the Parsee lawyer : Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the case of the foreigner in the English village / Shrabani Basu.

By: Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2021Description: xv, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781526615305
  • 1526615304
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 345.4207 23
Summary: "In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also sending threatening letters to the vicarage, where the vicar, Shahpur Edalji, is a Parsi convert to Christianity and the first Indian to have a parish in England. His son George - quiet, socially awkward and the only boy at school with distinctly Indian features - grows up into a successful barrister, till he is improbably linked to and then prosecuted for the above crimes in a case that left many convinced that justice hadn't been served"--Publisher's description.
List(s) this item appears in: New Acquisitions Autumn 2021
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Loanable Book Library General Collection 345.4207 BAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000437350

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"In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also sending threatening letters to the vicarage, where the vicar, Shahpur Edalji, is a Parsi convert to Christianity and the first Indian to have a parish in England. His son George - quiet, socially awkward and the only boy at school with distinctly Indian features - grows up into a successful barrister, till he is improbably linked to and then prosecuted for the above crimes in a case that left many convinced that justice hadn't been served"--Publisher's description.

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