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The victim’s room in the Oscar Slater case.
The sinister real life murder that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write Sherlock Holmes has been revealed in a new book.
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.
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.
A decade later, Chantrelle was hanged for poisoning his wife.
Pic: TheHistoryPress/BNPS
The victim’s room in the Oscar Slater case.
The sinister real life murder that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write Sherlock Holmes has been revealed in a new book.
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.
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.
A decade later, Chantrelle was hanged for poisoning his wife.
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