Edward Fryer wrote:

"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.

That's interesting. I haven't found anyone who felt that Blue at the Mizzen was
even includable in the series. I've never read such a disconnected tome in my
life. Almost as though an untalented editor had assembled an anthology of floor
sweepings. But I never had any idea why - just thought it might be senility.