Arthur and George

Jonathan Cape, UK, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 360 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Jonathan Cape, UK, 2005. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition. More specifically: Text and spine/cover marked with Library stamps, in all other respects in very good condition throughout. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Clear, self-adhesive laminate over boards. Edges of pages are lightly browned. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain- Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events which made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. George Edjali's father is Indian, his mother Scottish. When the family begins to receive vicious anonymous letters, many about their son, they put it down to racial prejudice. They appeal to the police, to no less than the Chief Constable, but to their dismay he appears to suspect George of being the letters' author. Then someone starts slashing horses and livestock. Again the police seem to suspect the shy, aloof Birmingham solicitor. He is arrested and, on the flimsiest evidence, sent to trial, found guilty and sentenced to seven years' hard labour. rthur Conan Doyle, famous as the creator of the world's greatest detective, is mourning his first wife (having been chastely in *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Drama & Sagas; ISBN: 0224077031. ISBN/EAN: 9780224077033. Inventory No: 19030389.. 9780224077033