Original Sherlock Holmes manuscript could fetch US$1.2 million at auction

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The manuscript alone is expected to fetch up to US$1.2 million, given its unique significance and status as the most valuable Conan Doyle item ever offered at auction, a Sotheby's statement said.

One summer evening in 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde sat down for dinner at the Langham Hotel in London with J.M Stoddart, the American businessman and editor of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine.

"And yet there they are at a dinner table together and talking about what they're currently working on. "The Sign of Four" was Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel, commissioned by Stoddart to capitalize on the popularity of the detective’s first adventure in"The Study in Scarlet." First edition copies of"Lolita" that its author Vladimir Nabokov addressed and sent to fellow writer Graham Greene, as well as to his wife, Vera, are also included in the sale.Trans-Canada Highway carbon tax protest monitored by RCMP

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