The Case of the Ghostly Photographs

Arthur Conan Doyle and the spirit-photography industry

At the very end of the book, his case made, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle delivers a closing statement in defense of a certain William Hope: “He stands before the world as a man who has been very cruelly maligned, and the victim of a plot which has been quite extraordinary in its ramifications.”

Like his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, Doyle had assemble…