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From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Sherlock Holmes stories
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 19:32:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 19:32:57 1985
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> From: crash!bnw@SDCSVAX.ARPA
> 
> >After all, if you go and look in your bookstore again, you will find
> >millions and millions of Sherlock Holmes stories not written by
> >Arthur Canon Doyle. . .
>  
>      Arthur Conan Doyle did not write any Sherlock Holmes stories.
> Doyle was a charlatan who tricked Dr. Watson and published the accounts
> of Holmes' cases under his own name.
>      But SF-Lovers is not the proper venue for that discussion.
>                                                      /Bruce N. Wheelock/
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I hate to disagree with you, Bruce, but there
is a great deal of evidence to suggest that
Doyle was a faithful literary agent, and that
the publisher (the Strand, was it) made the
errors, and Watson, who always did prefer to
remain in the background, insisted that it not
be corrected.

		-- SKZB