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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-09-11T02:19:24'
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title: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, long
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, long dead, is facing a Scotland Yard mudred probe after accusations surfaced yesterday that he stole the idea for _Hound of the Baskervilles_ from a friend and then [had him poisoned](http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/09/11/people.britain.doyle.reut/index.html). According to the Sherlock Holmes Society, the charge is "complete bunkum."