This episode, we travel to Sudan in the 1890s where a naïve reporter learns a thing or two from his more experienced rivals in ‘The Three Correspondents’, first published in 1896.

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Synopsis

During the opening stages of General Sir Herbert Kitchener’s reconquest of the Sudan in the 1890s, a trio of British correspondents has become detached from the main body of Kitchener’s force. The group prepare to bed down for the night in a palm grove when they encounter a lone British railway engineer in a heightened state of agitation. Naturally, they scent a story in the air. Shortly afterwards, they encounter the engineer again. Shots ring out, accompanied by a small party of Mahdist warriors. The correspondents are armed but nevertheless this is real danger. It is also copy, and what is danger when each man here owes a level of duty to his editor and, of course, his readers…

Next time on Doings of Doyle…

We return to Feldkirch for ‘A Pastoral Horror’ (1890). You can read the story here.

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