The Deadly Necklace. The current issue of the New Yorker has a fascinating story about
Richard Lancelyn Green, a preeminent Arthur Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes
scholar who
died under mysterious circumstances in March. At the time of his death, Green had been looking into the provinence of an
archive of
Conan Doyle’s papers [reprint of a NYTimes article], which he believed
(perhaps wrongly) had been stolen, and he'd hinted that there had been threats to his life. Soon afterward, he was found garroted by a shoelace in his room. The magazine does not provide the article online, but does offer this
Q&A with the author. I cannot recommend it highly enough, but to get you started while you're still at work, here's some more about Green's death from a Holmes
message board; a discussion of the
curse of Conan Doyle, which holds that Holmes scholars can meet an untimely end; and info on Doyle's
belief in the
supernatural.
posted by owenville
on Dec 9, 2004 -
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The Mystery At Webb Hill - In the waning daylight hours of December 7, 1998, three teenage boys, hiking near Webb Hill, St. George, Utah, saw a shirt sleeve flapping in the wind near the top of the hill. Their parents had warned them not to attempt hiking the sheer red rock cliffs. What they discovered inside a stone-walled chamber was the skeletonized remains of a 16 year old male. Positive identification of this young man has eluded investigators for nearly five years.
Maybe you can help.
posted by mr_crash_davis
on Sep 20, 2004 -
17 comments
Death in the snow - a body is found in the frozen North Dakota woods. The cops say the dead Japanese woman was looking for the $1m she saw buried in the film Fargo. But the story didn't end there.
An interesting read via
Follow Me Here.
posted by madamjujujive
on Jun 12, 2003 -
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