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    Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Was Wanted
    Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Was Wanted
    Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Was Wanted
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    Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Was Wanted

    By Arthur Whitaker

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    Giallo - novelette (28 pagine) - A brillant novel first published as an unpublished story by Arthur Conan Doyle...


    Arthur Whitaker wrote and sent this clever novel to Arthur Conan Doyle, hoping to be published along with him. Doyle did not accept the idea but sent to Whitaker a check for ten guineas. This story was found many years later by Doyle's son Adrian in a trunk full of family papers. It was first published as an unpublished by Cosmopolitan magazine in August 1948.

    When it was published Whitaker was able to prove that the novel was written by him by showing a carbon copy of the manuscript.


    Arthur Whitaker (1882 – 1949) was an architect, naturalist and artist. He is perhaps most well known in ornithological circles, but was considered a fine 'all rounder,' able to locate and identify a wide variety of species. This novel is the only story written by Arthur Whitaker regarding Sherlock Holmes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDelos Digital
    Release dateDec 15, 2020
    ISBN9788825414172
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      Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Was Wanted - Arthur Whitaker

      Holmes.

      1

      During the late autumn of 'ninety-five a fortunate chance enabled me to take some part in another of my friend Sherlock Holmes's fascinating cases. My wife not having been well for some time, I had at last persuaded her to take a holiday in Switzerland in the company of her old school friend Kate Whitney, whose name may be remembered in connection with the strange case I have already chronicled under the title of The Man with the Twisted Lip. My practice had grown much, and I had been working very hard for many months and never felt in more need myself of a rest and a holiday. Unfortunately I dared not absent myself for a long enough period to warrant a visit to the Alps. I promised my wife, however, that I would get a week or ten days' holiday in somehow, and it was only on this understanding that she consented to the Swiss tour I was so anxious for her to take. One of my best patients was in a very critical state at the time, and it was not until August was gone that he passed the crisis and began to recover. Feeling then that I could leave my practice with a good conscience in the hands of a locum tenens, I began to wonder where and how I should best find the rest and change I needed.

      Almost at once the idea came to my mind that I would hunt up my old friend Sherlock Holmes, of whom I had seen nothing for several months. If he had no important inquiry in hand, I would do my uttermost to persuade him tojoin me.

      Within half an hour of coming to this resolution I was standing in the doorway of the familiar old room in Baker Street.

      Holmes was stretched upon the couch with his back towards me, the familiar dressing gown and old brier pipe as much in evidence as of yore.

      Come in, Watson, he cried, without glancing round. Come in and tell me what good wind blows you here?

      What an ear you have, Holmes, I said. I don't think that I could have recognized your tread so easily.

      Nor I yours, said he, if you hadn't come up my badly lighted staircase taking the steps two at a time with all the familiarity of an old fellow lodger; even then I might not have been sure who it was, but when you stumbled over the new mat outside the door which has been there for nearly three months, you needed no further announcement.

      Holmes pulled out two or three of the cushions from the pile he was lying on and threw them across into the armchair. Sit down, Watson, and make yourself comfortable; you'll find cigarettes in a box behind the clock.

      As I proceeded to comply, Holmes glanced whimsically across at me. "I'm afraid I shall have to disappoint you,

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