And US Copyright expired on Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/aut...r=release_date
Casebook
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69700
Adventures
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48320
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (stories published 1892–1893 in The Strand)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (stories published 1903–1904 in The Strand)
His Last Bow
Other Holmes on Gutenberg:
Study in Scarlet
Valley of fear
Hound of the Baskerviles
The Sign of the Four
I recommend "Older Kindles" and use Calibre to convert to epub2 (then the epub2 to azw3, epub3 etc as desired) with:
Tablet images
Smarten punctuation
Justify (only affects body CSS rules)
remove spaces between paragraphs
remove styles: line-height, white-space
You may also need to remove nested blockquotes to leave just one.
In last year Gutenberg seems to have gone a bit mad on formatting.
In reality people have been doing versions and pastiches since the lifetime of Conan Doyle. The excellent Maurice Leblanc had to change the name of Sherlock Holmes after Conan Doyle complained, hence Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_pastiches
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In 1942, a short story entitled "The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted" was discovered by a Conan Doyle biographer, Hesketh Pearson, while searching through a trunk full of Doyle family papers. It was published in 1947 as a "lost" story written by Conan Doyle, but it was eventually discovered by Pearson that the story was originally written in 1914 by Arthur Whitaker, who had sent it to Doyle in hope of a collaboration. Doyle had bought the story from the author, in case he might use the ingenious plot at a later date, but never did.
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I quite like Anthony Horowitz but didn't like his two approved Holmes books.
I did enjoy Laurie R. King's "The Beekeeper's Apprentice", the start of her Mary Russell series set during World War I and the 1920s. Retired Holmes is a beekeeper.
Copyright expired in 1980 in the UK, though the UK claimed many copyrights renewed when they badly implemented EU law in 1996, but the Conan Doyle copyrights expired again in 2000.
Anyone that wanted Holmes has bought cheap copies decades ago, or got them free.
The various people claiming to own copyrights have sponsored some approved 3rd party written texts. But there is plenty they didn't control and they have lost cases.
The USA expiry maybe only affects a couple of Conan Doyle titles on Gutenberg USA.