Martin Booth
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The Doctor and the Detective: A Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Martin Booth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in his autobiography: “I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded.” In the years since his death, Doyle has been almost uniquely identified with his most famous character, Sherlock Holmes, who remains among the world’s most identifiable figures, fictional or real. Doyle was much more than the author of the Holmes stories, but his very success with the series has clouded nearly every attempt to address his life. Martin Booth’s The Doctor and the Detective redresses the balance. It’s the…
Martin Booth
The Industry of Souls is the story of Alexander Bayliss, a British citizen arrested in Leipzig by the KGB in the 1950s. He is erroneously charged with espionage and accused of being an enemy of the Soviet peoples, and after a brief and “utterly irrelevant” trial he is sentenced to twenty-five years of hard labor in the work camps of Siberia. Officially reported drowned after his car went off a bridge, Bayliss (later known as Shurik) is reduced to “a filed dossier in a locked cabinet in the vaults of the Lubyanka, a lost man, a non-person.” Eventually freed…
