The Baskerville Legacy: A Confession
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...
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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 -
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781907595462 (1907595465)
Publish date: September 2011
Publisher: Short Books Limited
Pages no: 172
Edition language: English
I like to get something Holmesian each Christmas, and this was 2011's offering.Being a fictionalised account of the collaboration between Arthur Conan Doyle and Bertram Fletcher Robinson on The Hound of the Baskervilles, I did wonder as I read through quite how much was real and how much fiction. Fo...