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Conan Doyle’s cousin Arthur Vicars, the man at the heart of the case with a Holmes-like plot involving stolen jewels, miscarriages of justice and murderous revenge.<br />
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The sinister real life murder that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write Sherlock Holmes has been revealed in a new book.<br />
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Author Christopher Sandford has drawn remarkable parallels between the cases solved by the fictional detective and a real life crime Doyle encountered in his youth.<br />
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When Doyle was a seven-year-old schoolboy at Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a French émigré named Eugene Chantrelle was hired to teach Modern Languages there. <br />
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A decade later, Chantrelle was hanged for poisoning his wife.