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SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE GHOST SHIP MYSTERY

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S H ERLOCK HOLMES AND THE GHOST SHIP MYSTERY - By Don Hale -  How a true story inspired Conan Doyle to write a fictional tale accepted as fact. This is the true story of how a ghost ship inspired  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  to investigate one of the world's most fascinating mysteries about the  MARIE CELESTE.                                             The mysterious Marie Celeste When the brigantine Mary Celeste was first found abandoned and drifting helplessly in the Azores, just off the coast of Portugal in December 1872, speculative news of the crew being abducted or murdered by aliens, huge sea monsters, or pirates, no doubt inspired an inquisitive young Scottish schoolboy, Arthur Conan Doyle, to eventually write his own fictional tale.   Then aged just 13, and setting his mind to a medical career, it would be another 12-years before he finally put pen to paper whilst working as a surgeon on a whaling ship bound for an Arctic adventure. His story about the incident, entitled:  J.