A Very Rare (and Expensive) Short Story
It’s not every day that a 28-page short story from 1911 makes headlines. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story, The Disappearance of Lady Frances, is on the market for about $500,000. This story is hand-written by Conan Doyle and bound for the author.
“The story follows the cocaine-snorting, pipe-smoking sleuth as he solves the case of a rich, unmarried aristocrat who has vanished on the continent and is later found in a secret section of an old woman’s coffin. If sold, it will be the most expensive piece of Sherlock Holmes memorabilia since the original manuscript of The Sign of Four fetched $470,000 (£243,000) at Sotheby’s in New York in 1996.”
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