WHERE IS SHERLOCK WHEN YOU NEED HIM? Pubblico Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 21, May 23, 2004, Article 9
WHERE IS SHERLOCK WHEN YOU NEED HIM?
This week Reuters reported that: "A collection of long-lost
papers giving a rare glimpse into the private life of Sherlock
Holmes' creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was sold at auction
in London for almost $1.7 million Wednesday.The sale took place against the against the backdrop of the
bizarre death of a leading Holmes expert, who had opposed
the sale and was found strangled two months ago.""Correspondence with Winston Churchill, Oscar Wilde and
Theodore Roosevelt were also included in the sale."Richard Lancelyn Green, a former chairman of the Sherlock
Holmes Society and vociferous opponent of the sale, was
found garroted with a shoelace in his London home two
months ago.Lancelyn Green had become increasingly agitated and worried
for his safety in the days before he died, an inquest into his
death heard. The coroner in the case recorded an open verdict,
meaning he did not conclude how the scholar died."To read the full story, see: Full Story
[Several Sherlock Holmes stories have numismatic connections,
which we're discussed before in The E-Sylum. -Editor]- 2004-05-23
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