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]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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