The creator of Sherlock Holmes, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “was himself a murderer and a thief,” says a group of “literary sleuths” in England who “plan to prove their claim with a macabre exhumation in a Devon churchyard.” It’s all about a theory that Doyle was “involved in a dark plot to bump off a former editor of the Daily Express — the man who should truly be acknowledged as the creator of The Hound of the Baskervilles,” reports Anthony Barnes in a story for The Independent. Doyle wrote in the book’s intro, “This story owes its inception to my friend Fletcher Robinson who has helped me.” But a scientist named Paul Spiring believes Robinson contributed more to the book than Doyle wanted known, and that the famous author conspired to murder Robinson by poisoning him with the aid of his wife. Spiring says he plans to “make a formal application to the Diocese of Exeter to dig up Fletcher Robinson’s corpse,” but that already, “If you take a purely objective, scientific view of our findings, the evidence of a cover-up is irrefutable.”