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- These two stories are not part of the canon because neither story mentions Holmes by name, although literary scholars have proposed that the unnamed "amateur reasoner" in "The Lost Special" and the unnamed "well-known criminal investigator" in "The Man with the Watches" are intended to be Holmes, and this theory is accepted for the purposes of this LibriVox album.
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The story was loosely adapted into the serial The Lost Special (1932) as a western. An episode in the radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was titled "The Case of the Lost Special". Written by Edith Meiser, the episode aired on 18 November 1934.
- UK
- English
- 1898
Tales of Terror and Mystery. London, England: John Murray. Readability: Flesch–Kincaid Level: 9.7. Word Count: 7,119. Genre: Mystery. Keywords: 20th century literature, british literature, horror, mystery, scottish authors, sherlock holmes, sir arthur conan doyle. Cite This.
"The Lost Special" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published as part of the Round the Fire series in The Strand Magazine of August 1898. It is implied to be a Sherlock Holmes story, though his name is not used. The story's narrative mode is third person, subjective, though the...
Some commentators have proposed that the unnamed detective is Holmes. The story shares the same backing for categorising as a Sherlock Holmes story as "The Story of the Lost Special", and appears in French anthologies.
Mar 12, 2020 · The Man with the Watches and The Lost Special are short stories written by Conan Doyle in 1898 for his Round The Fire series. They are often considered part of the apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes as they feature anonymous correspondence from an unnamed amateur reasoner of note…
Jul 27, 2014 · The Lost Special by Arthur Conan Doyle. A train leaves the station, but vanishes before reaching the next stop. With no forks in the tracks or possible places to hide, the disappearance seems impossible... Source: Waterstones.