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Lädt ... The Baskerville Legacy: A Confessionvon John O'Connell
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Dartmoor, 1900. Two friends are roaming the moors: Arthur Conan Doyle--who has recently killed off his most popular creation, Sherlock Holmes; and Bertram Fletcher Robinson--Holmes aficionado and editor of the Daily Express. They are researching a detective novel, a collaboration starring a new hero, set in the eerie stillness of ancient West Country moorland. London, 1902. The Hound of the Baskervilles is published, featuring Sherlock Holmes back from the dead. Conan Doyle and Fletcher Robinson have not spoken for two years and the book is credited to just one author. It will become on of the most famous stories ever written. But who really wrote it? And what really happened on the moors, to drive the two friends apart? Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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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. Fortunately, O'Connell provides an Afterword in which all is clarified.
So, an interesting book, which gets better in its second half, when Doyle and Robinson are scouting locations for The Hound in Dartmoor, Robinson's childhood home, and when the creative and personal tensions between them start to surface.
I liked the section dealing with Doyle's (lamentable) dabbling in Spiritualism, and his gullibility and self-deceit as presented in this book seems to be true to the accounts I've read in a couple of biographies.
O'Connell has made Robinson into an interestingly flawed character, which he states in the Afterword is probably far from the truth, but which carries the story forward.
A relatively quick read in a nicely bound volume. (