122: Arthur Conan Doyle Investigates the Murder of Marion Gilchrist w/ Margalit Fox

<p>While Arthur Conan Doyle is recognized as the creator of one of the most famous characters in literary history - Sherlock Holmes- fewer people know that Doyle used his Holmesian skills of deduction to help solve actual real-life true crime cases. </p><p><br></p><p>One in particular had to do with Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant gambler who was convicted for the brutal beating death of a wealthy woman named Marion Gilchrist in Glasgow, Scotland in late December of 1908.</p><p><br></p><p>My guest, Margalit Fox, is author of the book "Conan Doyle for the...