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He had an evil reputation and legend has it that when he died in the 1670s, black dogs breathing fire raced across Dartmoor, howling. There are lots of legends surrounding a black hound on the moor, and one involves local squire, Richard Cabell.Ĭabell lived at Brook Manor, north of Buckfastleigh. The debate over the book grew in 1951, when the one time carriage driver for the Fletcher Robinson family, Harry Baskerville, claimed Conan Doyle's friend had played a much bigger role in its authorship than had been acknowledged.īut Weller, who is chairman of the society, The Baskerville Hounds, concludes that Conan Doyle did pen the work, after being told about the hound legends by Fletcher Robinson while they were out walking together on Dartmoor.įox Tor Mires - probably Grimpen Mire in the book

When the story was published in book form in 1902, Conan Doyle included an acknowledgement to Fletcher Robinson for telling him of the hound legend. Using almost Holmesian detective work, Weller visited the Dartmoor locations and researched the background of the Hound of the Baskervilles. Philip Weller - a Holmes fanatic - brought out a new edition of the book in 2001, together with an in-depth study of how and where it originated. OL262454W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 81.Was Baskerville Hall based on Hayford Hall?ĭid Conan Doyle even write it at all? And how much of an influence was his old friend, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, who lived in Ipplepen and first told him about the legend of the Dartmoor hound? reprinted / with new introduction by Alan Weissman. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:28:06 Boxid IA124106 Boxid_2 CH105801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Prince Frederick, MD Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.