The Baskerville Legacy : A Confession

The Baskerville Legacy: A Confession by John O'Connell [ISBN: 9781907595462 / ASIN: B005GTU2YY ]
'(...) I like the way your mind works," said Doyle. "We should work on something together. Pool our resources. What do you say?" I said I would enjoy that very much.' ---------------- 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. But the experience will prove traumatic for both of them. 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 takes us from the clattering heart of Edwardian London to the eerie stillness of ancient West Country moorland'...'

[About the Author]: John O'Connell worked for several years at the London listings magazine Time Out, where he was Books Editor. He now writes, mostly about books, for The Times, The Guardian, New Statesman and The National. He is the author of I Told You I Was Ill: Adventures in Hypochondria (Short Books, 2005) and The Midlife Manual (Short Books, 2010). He is 37 and lives in south London with his wife and two children.
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[Editorial Reviews] "O'Connell infuses real events and people with fiction to make this clever, atmospheric and elegant chiller." The Times "4/5 stars... A thrilling novella... Conan Doyle himself becomes not a villain but a dark character bedevilled by a complex private life and his mania for spiritualism... A rip-roaring addition to the extended library of all things Holmes. --MetroEngrossing... an eerie, pitch-perfect gothic tale, but it is also more than just a piece of literary archeology, probing questions of authorial ownership and fate and language in an atmospheric tour de force." Catholic Herald.

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