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A retired senior writer at The New York Times, Margalit Fox is considered one the foremost explanatory writers and literary stylists in American journalism. As a longtime member of the newspaper's celebrated Obituary News Department, she has written the front-page public sendoffs of some of the leading cultural figures of our age. (Conan Doyle for the Defense is in many ways a fond belated obituary--for the long-overlooked Oscar Slater, an immigrant Everyman treated inexcusably by history.) Fox's previous book, The Riddle of the Labyrinth, won the William Saroyan Prize for International Writing. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, the writer and critic George Robinson.
I cannot speak too highly of this remarkable book, which entirely captivated me with its rich attention to detail, its intelligence and elegant phrasing, and, most of all, its nail-biting excitement. I read it from dawn to dusk, near-starving myself in the process, so eager was I to find out who did the murder, why the Glasgow police were such monsters, and why Sherlock Holmes's creator was such a genius. --Simon Winchester, author of The Perfectionists and The Professor and the Madman New York Times senior writer [Margalit] Fox brings to life a forgotten cause c�l�bre in this page-turning account of how mystery writer-turned-real life sleuth Arthur Conan Doyle helped exonerate a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder. . . . The author's exhaustive research and balanced analysis make this a definitive account, with pertinent repercussions for our times. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for Margalit Fox's book, The Riddle of the Labyrinth Enthralling . . . [a] thoughtful, thrill-filled history . . . a tale of obsession and endurance and the high price that sometimes must be paid for forging into new territory . . . an exploration of the limits of the human mind. --The Plain Dealer An intricate and riveting story . . . a puzzle-solver's delight and a detective story full of longing and frustration, discovery and maddening egotism. --Chicago Tribune A gripping and tightly focused scholarly mystery . . . a testament to what the human brain, or at least the rare human brain, is capable of . . . Fox is attentive to touching traces of idiosyncratic humanity [and] makes the complexities of linguistic scholarship accessible. --Matti Friedman, The New York Times In Fox, the story has found a worthy Conan Doyle. . . . Fox successfully executes the balancing act of translating and distilling a specialized field of knowledge for a general audience without oversimplifying or succumbing to the didacticism of a textbook. --Donovan Hohn, The New York Times Book Review
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