Mysterious Circumstances
Was the death of Richard Lancelyn Green, the world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes expert, an elaborate suicide or a murder? David Grann reports, from 2004.
"The archive was estimated to be worth nearly four million dollars, and was said by some to carry a deadly curse, like the one in the most famous Holmes story 'The Hound of the Baskervilles.'" — the mystery surrounding Conan Doyle's missing papers