A lost Sherlock Holmes tale found

[crich70]

AN historian has unearthed the first unseen Sherlock Holmes story in over 80 YEARS -which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote to help save a town bridge.

Walter Elliot, 80, found the 1,300 word tale starring the famous sleuth in a collection of short stories written for a local bazaar.

The wooden bridge in the Scottish town of Selkirk was destroyed by the great flood of 1902 and locals organised a three-day event to raise funds for a new one in 1904.

As part of the event, organisers sold a collection of short stories by locals called "The Book o' the Brig".

Click They include the text of the story at the end of the article. Not an ebook but certainly news.

[glos]

and then there's this:
Conan Doyle Didn’t Write the Lost Sherlock Holmes Story

http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/...l#.VOmtsrOG9OV

[murg]

This sounds like a case for Sherlock Holmes. He'll get to the bottom of it.

[Ntsimp]

Sherlock Holmes fans pretty much invented fanfic. There's no reason to think Conan Doyle wrote this one.

[Barty]

Did Harper Lee's lawyer find it?

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Ntsimp

Sherlock Holmes fans pretty much invented fanfic. There's no reason to think Conan Doyle wrote this one.

Who knows. Actually I wager that fanfic goes pretty far back. Probably to ancient times in fact.

[Dazrin]

Here is a follow-up from a story written Friday. It sounds like this hasn't been entirely discredited, so I am still counting it as an authentic Holmes story, for bookkeeping purposes if nothing else at this point.

http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/0...-holmes-story/

[crich70]

Perhaps the reason it isn't mentioned in the paper that Conan Doyle had written a Holmes story for the booklet is more mundane than might be thought. If he was writing new Holmes stories for the Strand perhaps he worried that if it got publicity that the owners of the Strand magazine might feel he was violating some agreement between himself and them and so he asked them not to make a big deal about the story. As for how short it is I could see someone approaching him late in the day and asking if he would like to contribute something to the fundraiser. So he dashes off a short Holmes yarn to fit the bill. And since it was just a local fundraising event that would explain why it didn't attract much notice. I'm not saying that I know that is what happened or anything, just that it is possible that that is the reason why it has been so obscure. Conan Doyle did write other stories that aren't in the usual Canon but refer (at least indirectly) to Holmes. I have a book with the following tales (along with some of the accepted canon) included:

1. The story of the man with the watches
2. The story of the lost special
3. The field bazaar
4. How Watson learned the trick

[murg]

5. Fifty Shades of Hemingford Grey - SACD's attempt at writing in a different genre

[Phogg]

Originally Posted by murg

5. Fifty Shades of Hemingford Grey - SACD's attempt at writing in a different genre

The Fifty Shades Of Dorian Grey.

That fits eerily well, actually.

[murg]

Originally Posted by Phogg

The Fifty Shades Of Dorian Grey.

That fits eerily well, actually.

That's just silly.

Fifty Shades of Hemingford Grey finds Sherlock Holmes being called to investigate an outbreak of spiritus appearances in the town of Hemingford Grey. Upon his usual investigation, he discovers that it was a hoax fostered by the head groundskeeper at the local manor, in an attempt to drive off any buyers of the estate, thereby reverting the ownership to himself, as per the late owners will.

This story is believed to be the inspiration behind the creation of the Scooby-Doo TV series in 1969. Fred Silverman, the executive in charge of daytime programming at CBS, under pressure from parent-run organisations, particularly Action for Children's Television, commissioned Hanna-Barbera to develop a mystery based show, but with elements of the very popular The Archie Show (especially musical numbers). Joseph Barbera, attempted to develop the show based on the aforementioned Sherlock Holmes story, but failed, and passed the development onto Joe Ruby, Ken Spears and Iwao Takamoto. They developed the Scooby-Doo show as we know it today.

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by crich70

Perhaps the reason it isn't mentioned in the paper that Conan Doyle had written a Holmes story for the booklet is more mundane than might be thought. If he was writing new Holmes stories for the Strand perhaps he worried that if it got publicity that the owners of the Strand magazine might feel he was violating some agreement between himself and them and so he asked them not to make a big deal about the story. As for how short it is I could see someone approaching him late in the day and asking if he would like to contribute something to the fundraiser. So he dashes off a short Holmes yarn to fit the bill. And since it was just a local fundraising event that would explain why it didn't attract much notice. I'm not saying that I know that is what happened or anything, just that it is possible that that is the reason why it has been so obscure. Conan Doyle did write other stories that aren't in the usual Canon but refer (at least indirectly) to Holmes. I have a book with the following tales (along with some of the accepted canon) included:

1. The story of the man with the watches
2. The story of the lost special
3. The field bazaar
4. How Watson learned the trick

There are a half dozen reasons why he wasn't more prominently mentioned, yes. I'm still unconvinced that this wasn't his work.

[crich70]

For that matter A.C. Doyle wasn't too fond of his famous character. I remember reading what his reply was to William Gillette when he wanted to write a play in which Holmes gets married. Sir Arthur apparently said,"you can marry him, murder him, or do whatever you like with him." In the end it's thought that he wrote the later Holmes stories not because he wanted to but because magazines like the Strand were willing to pay good money for them and he needed/wanted funds for other things such as his research in spiritualism. So that might be another reason why he didn't want to be prominent in the advertising. He didn't want to write more stories about Holmes but if someone made it big news about this story others might have badgered him to write more. What year did the later tales start coming out anyway? I know they came out a few yrs later in the US than they did in England.