Doyle’s widely read articles and petition to the Home Secretary offered new evidence of Edalji’s innocence and suggested the identity of the actual criminal, resulting in the overturning of Edalji’s conviction, his re-admission to the bar and the establishment of the Court of Criminal Appeal. Doyle’s investigations-which lifted him out of the despondency occasioned by the death of his first wife-confirmed that the Edalji family had long been a target of police persecution. In 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, the renowned creator of Sherlock Holmes, was roused to passionate indignation on behalf of a sedentary-and extremely near-sighted-lawyer named George Edalji, who was disbarred and imprisoned after being convicted of mutilating farm animals. British author Barnes’s deeply satisfying tenth novel, based on a turn-of-the-century cause célèbre.
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