Place Your Bids!—Sherlocking the Auction of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Narrative of John Smith
By Crime HQ
June 8, 2011A couple of years before the world was introduced to Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet, struggling 23-year-old physician Arthur Conan Doyle went to the post to mail out his very first manuscript to a publisher. Unfortunately, his debut novel, The Narrative of John Smith, would never see its first printing…until this September, more…