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Another writer thought possibly to have been a murderer is Edgar Allan
Poe.
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*Conan Doyle 'stole Sherlock story'*
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/entertainment/1469415.stm>

A historian claims Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stole the Hound of the
Baskervilles story from a friend - and then had him poisoned.



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