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TIL That the world's foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes, Richard Lancelyn Green, was found dead in his flat in 2004 in very mysterious circumstances. Green at the time of death was attempting to stop a Christies auction of Holmes artefacts from taking place and ending up in collectors hands.

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