I’m in the middle of The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, the second of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes volumes I’ve been re-reading lately. Come to find out tonight that a bunch of Doyle’s papers and effects are up for auction tomorrow. The ownership of the items is a little controversial, but even more bizarre is the fact that Richard Lancelyn Green, a Sherlockiana scholar whose name has always stuck in my head since I read his books fifteen years ago and an opponent of the proposed sale, was found March 27th “garroted to death, strangled by a shoelace wrapped around a wooden kitchen spoon used to tighten its grip.” Horrific, and very strange, indeed. I’ll have to check out the scholarship online (gotta be a good Holmes blog out there somewhere) and see what the scoop is.