Dominic Sandbrook

Turns out I was spockled along.

As a writer, particularly as a writer of serials, what is my setup?

And when you've got something like The Thirsty Murder Club, I've got four people who are very, very different to each other.

I've got four different voices, and I know everywhere I can go, I can take whatever story you want to give me, and I know that I have an engine that will take me wherever I want to go.

The envy I have for Conan Doyle here is exactly what you're saying, which is he's got this unbelievable sort of omnipotent hero in the middle of this book who would become absolutely unbearable, actually, if you're just writing stories.

a story from his perspective.

And then he's got this slightly more taciturn junior kind of a colleague who writes down all the stories.

And that's the genius of it.

Cause anytime Conan, as you say, when Fletcher Robinson, by the way, I love people from Victorian era with two surnames as their name.

Um, when he says, Oh, there's this beast.

And, uh, you know, uh, it's, it's, it's on the more he immediately, uh,

He can start writing the first Watson chapter.

He's got the voice.

He knows exactly what that is.

And he's got the juxtaposition between the two people.

Any story can fit into that format.

I'm very envious of that.

That's such a lovely thing to have as a writer.

Yeah.

P.G.