The Bravoes of Market-Drayton E-Book

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 22

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

The Bravoes of Market-Drayton is a gripping account of organized intimidation and violence in a quiet English town. Doyle examines a real case of criminal conspiracy and social injustice, using his storytelling to call for legal reform and public awareness. It is investigative journalism laced with moral urgency.

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The Bravoes of Market-Drayton

True Crime Stories

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Prepared and edited by: Rafat Allam

Copyright © 2025 by Al-Mashreq eBookstore

First published in Chamber’s Journal, August 24, 1889

No part of this publication may be reproduced whole or in part in any form without the prior written permission of the author

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The Bravoes of Market-drayton

THE BRAVOES OF MARKET-DRAYTON

THE BRAVOES OF MARKET-DRAYTON

THE “NEWGATE CALENDAR” ACCOUNT OF THE MARKET-DRAYTON MURDER TRIAL

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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

THE BRAVOES OF MARKET-DRAYTON

First published in Chamber’s Journal, August 24, 1889

THE BRAVOES OF MARKET-DRAYTON

To the north of the Wrekin, amid the rolling pastoral country which forms the borders of the counties of Shropshire and Staffordshire, there lies as fair a stretch of rustic England as could be found in the length and breadth of the land. Away to the south-east lie the great Staffordshire potteries; and farther south still, a long dusky pall marks the region of coal and of iron. On the banks of the Torn, however, there are sprinkled pretty country villages, and sleepy market towns which have altered little during the last hundred years, save that the mosses have grown longer, and the red bricks have faded into a more mellow tint. The traveller who in the days of our grandfathers was whirled through this beautiful region upon the box-seat of the Liverpool and Shrewsbury coach, was deeply impressed by the Arcadian simplicity of the peasants, and congratulated himself that innocence, long pushed out of the great cities, could still find a refuge amid these peaceful scenes. Most likely he would have smiled incredulously had he been informed that neither in the dens of Whitechapel nor in the slums of Birmingham was morality so lax or human life so cheap as in the fair region which he was admiring.