It seems that someone is intent on learning what they do and do not know. Arthur and Woodie travel to the country to visit George's family, where their arrival causes a bit of a stir. After being warned off by the very judge who presided over the trial, Arthur is even more determined to discover the true culprit. George was convicted in 1903 of sending poison pen letters and animal parts in the Staffordshire village of Great Wyrley. George wants Arthur's help to clear his name. Arthur & George is a masterful novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race. Then his secretary Woodie comes across a letter from George Edalji, a young Parsee solicitor who has been sent to prison for three years for a crime that he claims he did not commit. Her death, after a long and drawn-out illness, has caused Arthur to slump into a guilt-ridden depression. In 1906, Conan Doyle is mourning the loss of his wife Louisa. Production : Philippa Braithwaite, Trevor Hopkins.Speck aka Royden Sharp : Lewis Kempster.Ernest 'Willie' Hornung : Timothy Watson.The Mam (Conan Doyle's mother) : Sandra Voe.Alfred Wood aka Woodie : Charles Edwards.
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