The Economist (US), May 22nd, 2004
Who's this fellow Conan Doyle, Watson?
Controversy surrounded this week's sale at Christie's
"I NEVER remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely," said Sherlock Holmes, a sentiment clearly shared by the great detective's creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, on the evidence of the chunk of his private papers that were auctioned at Christie's in London this week. The long unseen collection shows that Conan Doyle was not only one of the most popular writers of the 20th century--he has still outsold J.K. Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkien put together--but a public figure who t...
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