Hate mail & mutilated horses: Conan Doyle investigates

Published: March 22, 2021, noon

Shrabani Basu, author of\xa0The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer,\xa0shares the surprising story of George Edalji, who was wrongly accused of fatally maiming cattle in 1903. She reveals how this miscarriage of justice exposed the simmering racial tensions of Edwardian England and captured the imagination of Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle.\n(Ad)\xa0Shrabani Basu is the author of\xa0The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village\xa0(Bloomsbury, 2021)\nhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Mystery-Parsee-Lawyer-Foreigner-English/dp/1526615282/?tag=bbchistory045-21\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices