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"Gogarty" wrote in message
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Gogarty wrote:
| Indeed, I read somewhere that he was having
| them ghost-written .....

Is there any EVIDENCE of this?

Only hearsay that I know of. But the last three are devoid of inspiration.
Of course, O'Brian was quite old by then.

Most people attribute this to the death of his wife Mary; she died in 1998.
IIRC, Before she died, every single Aubrey-Maturin book had been dedicated
to her.