This Guy Thinks He's Found an Unpublished Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Story
To be fair, it's possible that it's a real long lost Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, it's just not very probable.
The story in question is 1,300 words in length and appeared in a 1903 pamphlet for a bazaar that was held to raise money for a bridge restoration in the town of Selkirk, Scotland. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a guest of honor at the bazaar, and provided some funding for the bridge restortation, but there's no mention of him writing a story for it. The pamphlet story is unsigned, and is most likely a part of a series of three "Notable Inerviews" written for the bazaar. The story opens with a nod to the previous two interviews, and it's terribly unlikely that Conan Doyle wrote those interviews as well. It's more likely that someone else wrote the story as a nod to Conan Doyle's attendance.
"Sherlock Holmes." — DISCOVERING THE BORDER BURGHS, and, BY DEDUCTION, the BRIG BAZAAR was found by historian Walter Elliot, who has apparently had it for 40-50 years, and brought it out of storage upon hearing that the bridge is to again be restored. You can read the text in full here.
The story in question is 1,300 words in length and appeared in a 1903 pamphlet for a bazaar that was held to raise money for a bridge restoration in the town of Selkirk, Scotland. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a guest of honor at the bazaar, and provided some funding for the bridge restortation, but there's no mention of him writing a story for it. The pamphlet story is unsigned, and is most likely a part of a series of three "Notable Inerviews" written for the bazaar. The story opens with a nod to the previous two interviews, and it's terribly unlikely that Conan Doyle wrote those interviews as well. It's more likely that someone else wrote the story as a nod to Conan Doyle's attendance.
"Sherlock Holmes." — DISCOVERING THE BORDER BURGHS, and, BY DEDUCTION, the BRIG BAZAAR was found by historian Walter Elliot, who has apparently had it for 40-50 years, and brought it out of storage upon hearing that the bridge is to again be restored. You can read the text in full here.