Original draft of Sherlock Holmes story to go on display

Major exhibition will include original manuscript of Sherlock Holmes story

Is the Austrian baron Adelbert Gruner really a murderer as well as a remorseless philanderer, as Sherlock Holmes suspects? Fans of the great detective will be able to find out by reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original version of the late Holmes story The Adventure of the Illustrious Client when his manuscript is displayed for the first time, in a major new exhibition opening next month at the Museum of London.

The manuscript was bequeathed to the Scottish nation in the will of Conan Doyle's daughter, yet was held in a vault at Coutts bank in London, out of public view, for many years while Scottish museums vied for the honour of displaying it.

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