Baskerville Legacy

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ISBN: 9781907595462

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	O'CONNELL JOHN
Pub Date	01/09/2011
Binding	Hardback
Pages	190

Publisher: Short Books Ltd

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When a young journalist, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, meets his writer hero Arthur Conan Doyle on a troop ship coming back from South Africa, he is delighted - especially when the creator of Sherlock Holmes suggests they collaborate on a 'real creeper' of a story.

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The experience of collaboration will prove traumatic for both Fletcher Robinson and Conan Doyle. And when the result of their labours, The Hound of the Baskervilles, is finally published, it will be credited to one author alone. Based on real events, The Baskerville Legacy is a creeper in its own right: a thrilling, frequently terrifying exploration of friendship and rivalry, love and lust, ambition and the limits of talent. It provides a glimpse of the chilling Edwardian taste for spiritualism and the occult. It takes us from the clattering heart of Edwardian London to the eerie stillness of ancient West Country moorland, where a treacherous mire might swallow a man in seconds -