The story is barely three pages long, starting on page 40, and its headline is: "Sherlock Holmes." - DISCOVERING THE BORDER BURGHS, and, BY DEDUCTION, the BRIG BAZAAR. However, there is no mention in the booklet of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle having written the story.īy using quotation marks around Sherlock Holmes the author of the story showed that this person was fictional the detective's name was often written that way in the newspapers back then. A local wooden bridge over the river Ettrick had been destroyed during a flood in 1902, and the town needed money to build a new traffic bridge. It is a 1,300-word tale and was originally included in a 48-page booklet called The Book o' the Brig, published in December 1903 to raise funds during a bazaar in the Scottish town of Selkirk. The Telegraph reported on the discovery and also published the entire story.
Walter Elliot, a local historian in Selkirk, Scotland, claims that he has found a long lost Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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