![]() He was convicted on the flimsiest evidence and sent to jail. Frequently harassed by his local constabulary, Edalji was arrested for a series of ritualistic slaughters of cows, horses, and sheep that had terrorized the community for years. Now he brings out Arthur & George (Knopf), an utterly absorbing, beautifully crafted old-fashioned novel based on the true story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's taking up a miscarriage of justice at the turn of the last century-the false conviction of a half-Parsi, half-Scottish young solicitor named George Edalji. The English novelist Julian Barnes accepts this: He has been fooling around in complex, intelligent ways with 19th-century figures and forms since his early success with Flaubert's Parrot. The novel is a stubborn form-150 years ago it found the shapes and approaches that suited it, and it has never for long been happy in other clothing. ![]() ![]() Julian Barnes's dazzling novel about the real-life heroism of Sherlock Holmes's creator. ![]()
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