London - A British writer has accused Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, of plagiarism and murder, causing outrage among the author's fans.
Mr Rodger Garrick Steele, a former pyschologist, claimed yesterday that Conan Doyle stole the story of The Hound of the Baskervilles from one of his friends, Bertram Fletcher Robinson.
In the true spirit of a Sherlock Holmes story, Garrick Steele claimed Conan Doyle then got rid of Robinson by persuading his wife, with whom he was having an affair, to poison her husband.
Bertram Robinson officially died of typhoid in 1907 at the age of 36.