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Old 07-25-2005, 05:28 PM   #1
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Another Long-dead Author Accused of Murder
In this case, it's a long-dead Sir Arthur! As in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/news/article301231.ece

"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one of the world's most famous crime writers, was
himself a murderer and a thief according to a team of literary sleuths, who
plan to prove their claim with a macabre exhumation in a Devon churchyard."

They are hoping to "prove" that Sir Arthur (with the help of his wife) murdered Bertram Fletcher Robinson. So they aren't just making accusations against Sir Arthur, they are also making them against his wife. And they're saying that they did this because Robinson was the true creator of The Hound of the Baskervilles. (In the first edition, Sir Arthur did apparently acknowledge a debt to Robinson.)

Of course, even if the person is found to have been poisoned, that doesn't "prove" Sir Arthur did it. It's kinda hard to interview suspects now, and anyway, these people seem to have made up their mind about whodunnit -- something Sherlock Holmes would know better than to do.

According to the article, this theory was first published in the book "House of the Baskervilles" by Roger Garrick-Steele. This sounds impressive until you look it up and realize it was published by ... AuthorHouse! A vanity press! The book doesn't have a single review on Amazon.com. (That's odd as most vanity press books will at least include reviews by the family and friends of the author.)

Dear God. How do they come up with this stuff?! I've heard of cold cases,
but this is ridiculous.
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Old 07-26-2005, 01:15 AM   #2
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Er...how does the family feel about this gentleman's remains being exhumed at the whim of these "literary sleuths"?
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This is the most brilliant literary theory since it was discovered that Jack the Ripper was Lewis Carroll!

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This is the most brilliant literary theory since it was discovered that Jack the Ripper was Lewis Carroll!
I think that theory is hysterical. As a theory, it sucks. As an article from The Onion, it would have been a winner. There's a great review of it on James D. Macdonald's site. Warning: Naughty words abound in the quoted examples.

Somewhere, I read a book review where the reviewer took the first paragraph from the book, scrambled the letters, and used the text to "prove" that the author himself was actually Jack the Ripper.

You never know, maybe the author runs around shouting "Rejack, rejack, rejack!" (Only Trek fans will get that one...)
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Did you know that Sir Francis Bacon wrote Don Quixote and all of the plays attributed to William Shakespeare?
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