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  • The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer

  • Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village
  • Written by: Shrabani Basu
  • Narrated by: Aysha Kala
  • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer

Written by: Shrabani Basu
Narrated by: Aysha Kala
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Bloomsbury presents The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer by Shrabani Basu, read by Aysha Kala.

Basu's account of how Arthur Conan Doyle set about trying to get a pardon for Edalji is in itself a fine piece of detective work.' The Times
‘Compulsive reading.’ A.N. Wilson
'Nails the nastiness of a peculiarly English scandal.' The Spectator
'A potent mix of racial injustice, Sherlockian mystery and Shrabani's signature storytelling.' Lucy Worsley

In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also sending threatening letters to the vicarage, where the vicar, Shahpur Edalji, is a Parsi convert to Christianity and the first Indian to have a parish in England. His son George – quiet, socially awkward and the only boy at school with distinctly Indian features – grows up into a successful barrister, till he is improbably linked to and then prosecuted for the above crimes in a case that left many convinced that justice hadn’t been served.

When he is released early, his conviction still hangs over him. Having lost faith in the police and the legal system, George Edalji turns to the one man he believes can clear his name – the one whose novels he spent his time reading in prison, the creator of the world’s greatest detective. When he writes to Arthur Conan Doyle asking him to meet, Conan Doyle agrees.

From the author of Victoria and Abdul comes an eye-opening look at race and an unexpected friendship in the early days of the twentieth century, and the perils of being foreign in a country built on empire.
©2021 Shrabani Basu (P)2021 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Curious story of racism in the early 1900s

True, we are hardly incredulous in suspecting inherent racial prejudice in the UK of late 19th C. But, what we are awestruck by are the lengths to which the 'honourable' police of the era go to in order to cover up just inquiry, conjure up false evidence and downright frame a swarthy Parsee lawyer of Indian descent. No less than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes gets involved in helping the accused out of sheer compassion and a sense of justice. Will justice be finally served? Got to read to find out!

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