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Sherlock Holmes manuscript expected to fetch up to £300,000

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 | 2:14 PM

Handwritten draft of 1893 mystery to be sold at literature auction in US along with other works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A handwritten draft of a Sherlock Holmes mystery from 1893 is to be sold at a fine literature auction in New York – with estimates suggesting it could go for up to £300,000.

The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter is one of the 56 short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about the detective Sherlock Holmes. The story is best known for the first appearance of Holmes’s older brother, Mycroft.