Heaven has Claws

East African adventure and big-game fishing with Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle and his wife begin the book with a disastrous year in Tangiers, before moving briefly to the New Forest where they found themselves neighbours of F.A. Mitchell-Hedges. Conan Doyle and his new neighbour got together a joint expedition to the eastern Indian Ocean. However, the shipping company refused to carry Conan Doyle's pet dog any further than Mombasa, and so Mitchell-Hedges continued the journey alone. The Conan Doyles stayed behind with their "10 tons of shark hooks, tinned food, ropes, wire traces, rods, reels, rifles, tools, cameras, ammunition and medicines heaped on the wharfside".