The case of the 'Parsee' killer

Book review of The Mystery of The Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji And The Case Of The Foreigner In The English Village

The lawyer son of possibly England’s first vicar of Indian origin, a string of mutilated horses and cattle in the village of Great Wyrley, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, are some of the prominent characters in this story that is equal parts the micro-history of one Indian family that embraced Christianity and went to live in England, a mystery that remains unsolved till date, and a sociological study of everyday racism in the late 19th-early 20th century Great Britain. Shrabani Basu, journalist and author, pens a fascinating story that has been lost in the mists of