ARTHUR & GEORGE -- Julian Barnes

Alfred A. Knopf -- hc
New York -- ©2005 -- 388pp
ISBN: 0-307-26310-x

Arthur Conan Doyle puts his Sherlock Holmes hat on, and works to overturn a miscarriage of justice against barrister, George Edalji.

This book was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize (which was won by John Banville's The Sea). It is, in my opinion, a much better and more readable book than Banville's winner.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, always anxious about what was going to happen next. I often thought that it read like a Sherlock Holmes story, with more information provided.

I will grumble a bit over the ending (**WARNING** Possible Spoiler Alert In This Paragraph!!), which concluded the story -- sort of -- with an almost notation, rather than a revelation. And even at that, we have no knowledge of the culprit.

Still, this is most definitely a recommended book.