Man finds lost Sherlock Holmes story in his attic

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Eighty-year-old Walter Elliot was looking through old papers in his attic when he found a Sherlock Holmes story from 1904.

The short story, "Sherlock Holmes: Discovering the Border Burgs and, by Deduction, the Brig Bazaar," was inside a pamphlet one of Elliot's friends had given him more than 50 years ago.

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Meghan DeMaria

Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.