Smell, Memory and Literature in the Black Country

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lized to influence the Home Office. In 2010, Roger Oldfield, published Outrage: the Edalji Five and the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes, but Basu’s informative and readable study benefits from newly discovered primary sources. Edalji was pardoned because of the influence of powerful people, but this reviewer was left wondering how many other cases involving prejudice and discrimination against ethnic minorities had less satisfactory legal outcomes.