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Just before Christmas 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy 82-year-old spinster, was found bludgeoned to death in her Glasgow home. A valuable diamond brooch was missing, and police soon fastened on a suspect - Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant who was rumoured to have a disreputable character. Slater had an alibi, but was nonetheless convicted and sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment in the notorious Peterhead Prison. Seventeen years later, a convict called William Gordon was rel

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Author

Margalit Fox

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782831105

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.2 / 5 (79 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14