Unexpected Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes and more Automatic translate

SELKIRK. In Scotland, an unknown story of Conan Doyle about Sherlock was discovered.

Recently, attics, cellars and libraries have been reminiscent of a magician, with a flick of the arm pulling surprise after surprise from his sleeve. They are found in the rubble of notes of unimaginable value of the score, manuscripts of great poets and scholars emerge. As if the unknown statute of limitations had ended, and the time had come to present the treasures.

Fortune smiled this time to the Scottish historian Walter Elliot, whose cluttered attic turned out to be a haven of bibliographic rarity. An unknown little novel “Sherlock Homes: Discovering the Border Burghsand, bydeduction, the Brig Bazaar” was included in the collection, released for charity in 1904. One of the structures that suffered in the Scottish Selkirk from the 1902 flood was the bridge. Among other writers who decided to help raise funds was Conan Doyle. Despite the absence in the collection of a signature that completely confirms its authorship, there is practically no doubt about the contrary. Conan Doyle was a frequent visitor to these places, and he knew firsthand about the situation with the destroyed structure. The previous find was more significant. In March 2004, it was possible to find the writer’s correspondence with Churchill, Roosevelt, Shaw and Wilde, diaries and manuscripts that are awaiting publication.

Unexpected discoveries await those who know the English writer only from the stories of the brilliant detective. His legacy also includes plays and wonderful novels: The Lost World (which has become a kind of literary basis for Spielberg’s films about dinosaurs) and The Poisoned Belt - the fascinating adventures of Professor Challenger and his friends, the detective Valley of Horror. The Rafles Howe Discovery is a story about an alchemist who learned to mine gold from heavy metals and became the richest man in the world. But there were still poetic ballads, historical and everyday novels, humorous works about the brigadier Gerard. Acquaintance with the biography of Doyle strikes no less than the life vicissitudes of his heroes. Bachelor of Medicine, passionate hunter and golfer, inventor, occultist and spiritualist. It remains only to envy those who have to discover the new Conan Doyle.

UPD. On the website arthur-conan-doyle.com a rebuttal appeared Arthur Conan Doyle’s involvement in this text with arguments (in English).

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru