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A Case for Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Missing First Novel

Lost Masterpieces

Conan Doyle’s shock at the novel’s disappearance “would be as nothing to my horror if it were suddenly to appear again in print,” he once wrote—which it finally did in 2011.

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