The Love Affair of George Vincent Parker E-Book

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

In this narrative, Arthur Conan Doyle reconstructs a romantic entanglement that ends in scandal and legal consequence. The Love Affair of George Vincent Parker is both a tale of betrayal and a dissection of motive. Doyle explores the moral gray areas between passion and criminality in this short but compelling case.

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The Love Affair of George Vincent Parker

True Crime Stories

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Prepared and edited by: Rafat Allam

Copyright © 2025 by Al-Mashreq eBookstore

Published in The Strand Magazine, December 1894

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 Love Affair of George Vincent Parker

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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

THE LOVE AFFAIR OF GEORGE VINCENT PARKER

ILLUSTRATED BY SIDNEY PAGET

Published in The Strand Magazine, April 1901 First book appearance in Strange Studies From Life, Candlelight Press, New York, 1963

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THE student of criminal annals will find upon classifying his cases that the two causes which are the most likely to incite a human being to the crime of murder are the lust of money and the black resentment of a disappointed love. Of these the latter are both rarer and more interesting, for they are subtler in their inception and deeper in their psychology. The mind can find no possible sympathy with the brutal greed and selfishness which weighs a purse against a life; but there is something more spiritual in the case of the man who is driven by jealousy and misery to a temporary madness of violence. To use the language of science it is the passionate as distinguished from the instinctive criminal type. The two classes of crime may be punished by the same severity, but we feel that they are not equally sordid, and that none of us is capable of saying how he might act if his affections and his self-respect were suddenly and cruelly outraged. Even when we indorse the verdict it is still possible to feel some shred of pity for the criminal. His offence has not been the result of a self-interested and cold-blooded plotting, but it has been the consequence—however monstrous and disproportionate—of a cause for which others were responsible. As an example of such a crime I would recite the circumstances connected with George Vincent Parker, making some alteration in the names of persons and of places wherever there is a possibility that pain might be inflicted by their disclosure.

Nearly forty years ago there lived in one of our Midland cities a certain Mr. Parker, who did a considerable business as a commission agent. He was an excellent man of affairs, and during those progressive years which intervened between the Crimean and the American wars his fortune increased rapidly.