‘The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Foreigner in the English Village’ review: When the creator of Sherlock Holmes stepped in to solve a real-life case
The Hindu
A historian recalls how Arthur Conan Doyle helped a Parsi lawyer, George Edalji, clear his name after being convicted for the crime of animal mutilation
The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer is a title that seems straight out of the Sherlock Holmes tales. Not surprising that the author of that series plays a starring role in this real-life whodunnit. The case is about the wrongful conviction of George Edalji, a barrister from Great Wyrley, a mining town near Birmingham, England, and how Arthur Conan Doyle helped clear his name. But the background to this is fascinating. George’s father, Shahpur Edalji, a Parsi convert to Christianity was appointed as the vicar of Great Wyrley, the first South Asian to do so in Britain in 1876. Edalji senior was also married to Charlotte Stoneham, an Englishwoman, and the family had to face discrimination all their life.
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