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Call for Holmes: Conan Doyle is accused of betrayal and murder

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20050724
Author:Anthony Barnes Arts and Media Correspondent

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.

Investigators are attempting to show once and for all that the creator of Sherlock Holmes was involved in a dark plot to bump off a former editor of the Daily Express " the man who should truly be acknowledged as the creator of the Hound of the Baskervilles.

In a bizarre scenario that Holmes himself might have appreciated, it is alleged that Bertram Fletcher Robinson was ...

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