![]() Barracoon : The STory of the Last "BLack Cargo" // Zora Neale HurstonĪn image of the cover of the book All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire. Along the way, readers get insights on Conan Doyle's mind and character, as well as the evolution of our ideas about crime. Fox deftly details how anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiment helped foul the case from the beginning. (Little matter that he'd pawned it before the murder actually happened.) Incensed by the shoddy police work, Conan Doyle stepped in, but it took decades for him to help Slater win his freedom. Police immediately seized on Oscar Slater, an immigrant Jewish gambler, as the culprit, based largely on the fact that he'd pawned a brooch similar to-but not matching-one taken from the dead woman's house. Late one December evening in 1908, a wealthy older woman was brutally murdered in Glasgow. New York Times senior writer Margalit Fox tells the story of when Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, changed the course of a real-life murder case. ![]() ![]() Bad Blood : Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup // John CarreyrouĪn image of the cover of the book Conan Doyle for the Defense. Hitt, the court stenographer who recorded such copious notes that they could piece together nearly everything that happened before Lincoln rested his last case. For this painstakingly researched tome, Dan Abrams and Dan Fisher owe much to Lincoln’s colleague and friend Robert R. He had gained some national recognition following his debates with Stephen Douglas in 1858, but just nine months before the political convention that would name him the Republican nominee, Lincoln took on a high-profile case in Springfield, Illinois, that involved the murder of one of his own law clerks by the son of one of his longtime friends. But before heading to the White House, Lincoln spent two decades as a popular and respected lawyer. In many history books, the story of Lincoln’s life jumps from Honest Abe splitting rails to growing a beard and guiding the country through the Civil War. An image of the cover of the book Lincoln's Last Trial.
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