There are a number of Arthur Conan Doyle’s letters an “idea book” in which he jotted notes for possible future stories and a never-before-displayed speech, written by hand, in which Conan Doyle talks about why he killed off Holmes. Miranker, a former executive at Apple, who has been buying all manner of things Holmesian since 1977. It features a proper Baker Street-number of items from the collection of Glen S. On January 12th, an exhibit called “Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects” opened there. The Grolier Club, a private society for bibliophiles on the Upper East Side, with its marble foyer and dark wood-panelled gallery, would be a fine stage for a nineteenth-century fictional murder, perhaps done in the library with a candlestick, most certainly involving a will.
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