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Listener discretion is advised. Arthur Conan Doyle, world famous is the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, played real life detective himself

and freed a man wrongly convicted of murder. Why on earth wasn't this story better known?

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas. I'm also the host of the

historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold More Wicked, and the co-host of the

podcast Buried Bones on exactly right. I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show, and they are all excellent writers.

They've had so many great true crime stories and now we want to tell you those stories with details that have never been published.

Tenfold War Wicked Presents Wicked Words is about the choices that writers make good and bad.

It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories.

One of the most incredible stories in true crime is the tale of Arthur Conan Doyle

and how he helped free a man who was innocent of murder.

Author Margolite Fox offers us a deep dive into the characters in her book,

Conan Doyle for the defense.

Tell me where it makes the most and Doyle

to dole for the defense. Tell me where it makes the most sense to start with this story which we're gonna unravel

like a Sherlock Holmes mystery.

Who do we want to start with? The victim or the would be killer?

The victim and it really does start on the proverbial dark and stormy night.

This is Glasgow, Scotland a few days before Christmas

1908 and it was indeed raining.

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