This collection includes eight autograph letters, one typed letter signed by Doyle with an original drawing of him hunting crocodiles, 13 typed letters signed to Doyle, and numerous others. These letters were written to his acting secretary and also include accounts of seances conducted by Margery and others. Chief among them is an archive of correspondence regarding Doyle’s spiritualism lecture tour to Africa in 1929, estimated at $8,000-$12,000. Original Doyle letters and manuscripts will likely claim top-lot status in this sale. It also represents the first offering of materials from the Sherlockian enthusiast and scholar Robert Hess. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
It will feature artwork, books, photos, letters, posters, and ephemera related to Sherlock Holmes and the author who created him. These two fascinating sets of stories make a glorious farewell to the greatest detective of them all and his erstwhile companion, Dr Watson.1922 six-sheet movie poster for ‘Sherlock Holmes,’ starting John Barrymore, possibly unique, estimated at $4,000-$6,000ĬHICAGO – On Thursday, April 20, starting at 10 am Central time, Potter & Potter Auctions will present a 282-lot sale titled A Study In Sherlock, celebrating all things Arthur Conan Doyle (British, 1859-1930). The title story recounts how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retirement to help the government foil a German plot on the eve of the First World War. The collection His Last Bow features some of Sherlock Holmes' most dramatic cases, including the vicious revenge intrigue connected with 'The Red Circle' and the insidious murders in 'The Devil's Foot'. However, in a unique way of telling some of these stories the narrator is Sherlock Holmes himself and not John Watson as is usually the case. Like the other stories Sherlock seems to be one step ahead of everyone else in finding the solution to the mystery. Treachery, mutilation and the terrible consequences of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in these stories, along with atmospheric touches of the gothic, involving a bloodsucking vampire, crypts at midnight and strange bones in a furnace. This is the final set of Sherlock Holmes short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they. 'Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.'In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. With a new Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
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