B&RU readers are fortunate that our series begins with a newly-discovered manuscript of a never-published adventure of Sherlock Holmes. The manuscript was discovered hidden in the false bottom of an old trunk by a great-great grandson of Sir Arthur Conor Doyle. All true Baker Street Irregulars know that Conor Doyle was simply the literary agent for Dr. John H. Watson, companion and chronicler of Sherlock Holmes’ many adventures in crime detection. From the customs labels attached, the trunk had accompanied Holmes and Watson on their only voyage to America, as the hidden manuscript relates.
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