THE MAN WHO WOULD BE SHERLOCK: THE REAL LIFE ADVENTURES OF ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Book ID/图书代码： 12751018C00065
English Summary/英文概要： When Arthur Conan Doyle was a lonely 7-year-old schoolboy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a French émigré named Eugene Chantrelle was engaged there to teach Modern Languages. A few years later, Chantrelle would be hanged for the particularly grisly murder of his wife, marking the beginning of Conan Doyle’s own association with some of the bloodiest crimes of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
This early link between actual crime and the greatest detective story writer of all time is one of many. Conan Doyle would also go on to play a leading role in the notorious case of the young Anglo-Indian lawyer George Edalji, convicted and imprisoned as the ‘mad ripper’ who supposedly prowled the fields around his Staffordshire home by night looking for animals to mutilate; and the equally chilling story of Oscar Slater and his alleged murder of an elderly spinster as she sat in her Glasgow home one winter’s night in 1908, a crime with a spectacular denouement 18 years later.
Using freshly available evidence and eyewitness testimony, Christopher Sandford follows these links and draws out the connections between Conan Doyle’s literary output and factual criminality, a pattern that will enthral and surprise the legions of Sherlock Holmes fans. In a sense, Conan Doyle wanted to be Sherlock – to be a man who could bring order and justice to a terrible world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当阿瑟•柯南•道尔还是爱丁堡纽灵顿预科学校一名孤独的7岁小学生时，一位名叫尤金•尚特雷的法国移民就在那里教授现代语言。几年后，尚特雷因谋杀妻子而被处以绞刑，这标志着柯南•道尔自己与维多利亚和爱德华时代一些最血腥的罪行有了联系。
真正的犯罪与有史以来最伟大的侦探小说作家之间的这种早期联系是众多联系之一。柯南•道尔还将继续在一桩臭名昭著的案件中扮演主角。年轻的英裔印度律师乔治•伊达尔吉被判有罪，并以“疯狂开膛手”的罪名入狱。同样让人不寒而栗的是，1908年一个冬天的晚上，奥斯卡•斯莱特坐在格拉斯哥家中，被指控谋杀了一位老处女。
克里斯托弗•桑福德利用最新的证据和目击者证词，追踪了这些线索，找出了柯南•道尔的文学作品与事实犯罪行为之间的联系。从某种意义上说，柯南•道尔想要成为夏洛克——一个能给这个可怕的世界带来秩序和正义的人。（WYL）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 克里斯托弗•桑福德是24本书的作者。由历史出版社出版的最后一本书目前正在第三次印刷中。胡迪尼和柯南•道尔的作品《天才的朋友，致命的对手》于2011年出版。它最近正在发展成为一部电视迷你剧。克里斯托弗•桑福德撰写的关于约翰•肯尼迪及其与英国及英国人民的终生关系的著作，也将于2017年肯尼迪诞辰100周年之际出版。克里斯托弗的书已被翻译成18种语言。
Christopher Sandford is the author of 24 books. The Final Over – published by The History Press – is currently in its third printing. Houdini and Conan Doyle: Friends of Genius, Deadly Rivals, the story of the strange relationship between the two greatest public performers of the early twentieth century, was published in 2011. It has recently been in development as a television miniseries. Christopher Sandford’s account of John F. Kennedy and his lifelong relationship with Great Britain and the British people will also be published in 2017, the centenary year of Kennedy’s birth. Christopher’s books have been translated into 18 languages.
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