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First Conan Doyle novel to be published

Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyles debut novel is to be published for the first time in September,nearly 130 years after it was written. The Narrative of John Smith was unfinished and differed radically from the Sherlock Holmes stories that made him famous,but experts said it offered a window into the mind of Conan Doyle as a young author. To be published by the British Library which owns an extensive Conan Doyle collection,the book was written in 1883 and 1884,before the publication of A Study In Scarlet.