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The Maracot Deep (sub-titled: The Lost World Under the Sea) is a short novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in The Strand Magazine from october 1927 to february 1928, then continued as The Lord of the Dark Face in april and may 1929. In april 1927, Conan Doyle wrote in a letter that the story would be called "The Fabricius Deep" but was renamed before publishing.

Author, William Roughead, was an Edinburgh court reporter circa 1890-1930. By avocation, Roughead was a master of the true-crime genre presenting his own front-row view of Victorian-era British crimes. His accounts are highly detailed, with credibility lent from his access to complete court transcripts, forensic pathology results, police interrogation notes, and coroner's reports. His wry wit adds readability as well explaining the great popularity of his works during his lifetime.

The story of an English spy in Germany during the First World War. The spy is an young man with a gift for languages who joins the army against his family's wishes. His gift is discovered and he is sent into the enemy country. A series of remarkable adventures, including the destruction of a zeppelin and the necessary murder of a scientist, make the book thrilling. Additional interest is added by his relationships with a German intelligence officer and with a young woman whose tragic death will ultimately prove his undoing.

A murder mystery set in Norfolk with half a dozen murders, three arrests, two trials with subsequent hangings (Good Reads). >Death Walks in Eastrepps begins quietly - almost too quietly. Robert Eldridge is returning to Eastrepps on the London train for his customary Wednesday-night tryst with Margaret Withers. At the same time Miss Mary Hewitt is sitting down to dinner with her brother James. Later that night she will make her usual visit to Mrs. Dampier at Tamarisk House. As she leaves to go home, nothing is out of the ordinary. But Mary Hewitt doesn't reach home that night, and her corpse is found the next day in a little wood just off the path she would normally take. A brutal murderer - soon called the Eastrepps Evil - is on the loose. >The Eastrepps Evil is a phrase coined by vacationing newspaperman William Ferris; might he also be the Evil? Or is the murderer Robert Eldridge, who with cold calculation carried on a six-months' affair with Margaret Withers in order to establish the perfect alibi? Or the shiftless Dick Coldfoot, who is blackmailing Eldridge? Or Alistair Rockingham, who has an eye for the ladies and certain compulsions that go beyond merely tipping his hat? Or is it someone else in the formerly sleepy seaside village of Eastrepps?

This is a book about famous cases where famous Q.C.s have successfully defended their clients: e.g. Sir Patrick Hastings defending Elvira Barney on a charge of murdering her lover in the early 1930's