Book description
  I like the way your mind works,â said Doyle.  We should work
on something together. Pool our resources. What do you say?â I said
I would enjoy that very much.' Â-Â-Â-Â-Â-Â-Â-Â-Â-Â-Â-Â-Â-Â-Â-Â- 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 Â- 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, where a treacherous mire might swallow a man in
secondsÂ
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.
