When Sherlock Holmes Became Real | Conan Doyle’s Strangest Case | Saturday Night Theatre Companion
🎧 Listen to the play first—or listen afterward:Conan Doyle’s Strangest Case — Saturday Night Theatre (6 January 1996)Listen to Conan Doyle’s Strangest Case
Arthur Conan Doyle created the greatest detective in fiction. Then real life handed him a case worthy of Sherlock Holmes.
In 1903, young solicitor George Edalji was convicted amid the strange and disturbing Great Wyrley outrages—a campaign of anonymous letters, threats and animal mutilations. The evidence was questionable, prejudice shadowed the investigation, and Edalji maintained his innocence.
Then Conan Doyle entered the case.
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