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#01.
On 27 March 2004, at the age of fifty, Mr. Richard Lancerone Green was found dead in his bed in his Kensington apartment in London.
The person who called the police was his sister Priscilla West, who had called her brother the night before and turned to an auto-answering machine with a message with a distinctly American accent: "I'm sorry, the owner is not home." ”
The next morning, she made several more calls, but no one answered. Panicked, she rushed to her brother's house.
No matter how she knocked on the door, there was no answer from the house. The police arrived and broke through the door, only to find Mr. Green lying on the bed with a black shoelace wrapped around his neck. The police preliminarily determined that he had been strangled.
A wooden spoon was tied to one end of the shoelaces, several animal specimens were attached to the deceased's side, and there was a bottle of gin at the head of the bed that had drunk most of the wine. The most placed in the room are books and posters about Sherlock Holmes.
The investigation found that there were no signs of forced entry into the room. So a few days later, the police gave the conclusion of death by suicide after drunkenness. One thing that can be confirmed is that no suicide note was found at the scene.
Mr. Green's family and friends had difficulty accepting the conclusions given by the police. They claim that Mr. Richard Lancelot Green is a very disciplined person and has never had any problems with depression or mental health.
Mr. Green's family has good reason to be suspicious.
Mr. Green's sister, Priscilla West, hinted that someone had recently threatened her brother. Later, Mr. Green wrote her an incomprehensible note with three phone numbers recorded on it, asking his sister to help keep it properly.
A Times reporter also confirmed that Mr. Green had called him before the incident and said that he might be in "trouble".
Mr. Green's old friend Lawrence Keane confirmed that he had had dinner with Mr. Green the night before and had drunk wine together. Mr. Green secretly told him, "There's an American who wants to ruin me." After the two men had finished eating and came out, Mr. Green pointed to a car behind him and signaled to him that someone was following him.
Another of Mr. Green's close friends also provided corroboration, and they had already agreed to go to Italy together the following week a few days ago, so Mr. Green had no reason to commit suicide.
In addition, Mr. Green's friends also found suspicious points through some trivial details: he was strangled by the shoelaces, but Mr. Green never wore only slacker shoes (the shoelet has elastic bands, which are easy to wear and take off shoes).
Some friends especially pointed out that the bottle of gin next to the bed that drank most of the wine could prove that there must have been an outsider present at that time. Because Mr. Green knew wine very well, since he had already drunk wine with his friends that night, he would never drink gin again after that.
Finally, Mr. Green's friends told the media, "All we know is that there is a conspiracy here." Someone wanted to devour artifacts that should have been collected by the British Museum. It's not a hypothesis – we all think it's the exact truth. ”
The artifacts named by Mr. Green's friends are the relics of arthur Conan Doyle, a great British writer from the late 19th to the beginning of the 20th century.
#02.
Legend has it that after sir Conan Doyle's death in 1930, a number of documents he left behind were gone. Many researchers believe that they may have been destroyed.
The Times has written that the whereabouts of the documents have become "as puzzling as any mystery that takes place at 221B Baker Street". Readers who love Sherlock Holmes know that 221B Baker Street is the residence of Holmes and his good partner Watson.
The media speculated that the manuscripts were worth nearly four million dollars, but as described in Holmes's most famous novel, The Hound of baskerville, they bear the curse of death.
Conan Doyle married twice, and the two wives had a total of five children. At the time of his death, in addition to the death of his eldest son Kingsley in World War I, the other four children negotiated to place all of their father's relics in the custody of his younger son, Adrian.
Sir Conan Doyle's only two surviving sons, Dennis and Adrian, are portrayed obscenely in the public eye. Both men are playboys, Dennis is extremely selfish, and Adrian, who knows him well, defines him by the word "villain."
Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle was a man who liked to win public attention, for example, in November 1938, the media reported the sudden disappearance of Adrian's python "Tico". A few days later, people got the news that the pet snake had been found in the chimney of the apartment.
On September 12, 1942, Adrian announced through the Associated Press agency the discovery of a new story of her father's unpublished Sherlock Holmes. According to him, the manuscript is exactly conan Doyle's handwriting. It was previously buried in the old paper pile of family documents.
However, after expert identification, the manuscript was not conan Doyle's handwriting, but was typed out with a typewriter. The media interviewed Conan Doyle's youngest daughter, Joan Conan Doyle, who denied that the manuscript was her father's handiwork.
In September 1945, an architect named Arthur Whitaker came out and publicly admitted that it was a novel he had written in 1911 featuring Sherlock Holmes, and he sent the story to Conan Doyle. The great writer sent him a check for a small amount soon after.
Whitaker still had some copies of the time in his hands, and Adrian was annoyed when he heard the rumors, and he threatened to take the man to justice. However, after reading the copy of the evidence provided by this person, Conan Doyle's family also had to admit that this person was the author of this manuscript.
Nevertheless, the American Cosmopolitan Magazine paid for the manuscript entitled "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and published it in the August 1948 issue. Some readers who do not know the truth believe that the author of this article is conan Doyle.
In the late 1960s, Adrian carried his siblings behind his back and showed copies of some documents to some collectors, planning to sell some manuscripts to collectors. But it seems that the curse of death has worked, and in June 1970, at the age of 60, Adrian died of a sudden heart attack. After his death, the documents never appeared again.
#03.
Richard Lancerline Green, the world's premier Sherlock Holmes expert, was fascinated by the story of Sherlock Holmes as a child. On his 13th birthday, he perfectly copied the apartment where Holmes and Watson lived in the attic of his home according to the scene in the novel. At the door of the room, he also hung a sign that read "Baker Street."
From his youth, Green has been working to find Sir Conan Doyle's lost manuscripts, hoping to give a glimpse into the inner world of great writers. After his investigation, all the clues pointed to the same person, Sir Conan Doyle's youngest daughter, Joan Conan Doyle.
Unlike her two half-siblings, she joined the RAF at an early age and served in the army for 30 years, earning her the Order of The Knighthood of the British Empire in 1963. In the early 1980s, Green and Ms. Joan got in touch, and they generously invited him to his home.
It was a tall and elegant woman, nearly seventy years old, although she was already full of silver hair, but standing there still had a strong military aura.
On the wall above her fireplace hangs a huge portrait of Conan Doyle with a walrus beard. As the little fan of the great writer, the distance between the two people soon narrowed. Ms. Joan told Green some interesting stories about her father that were not known, and took out a family photo album for him to enjoy. Before saying goodbye, Ms. Joan told the young man that he could come and go as often.
Later, Mr. Green shared with his friends that one day Ms. Joan showed herself several boxes in a law firm in London. At a glance, he caught a glimpse of several documents that were missing from the legend.
She told him that the documents could not be made public now because of some family disputes. However, she was prepared to give all the documents to the British Museum after her death, so that scholars could study it freely.
On November 18, 1997, Mrs. Joan Conan Doyle died at the age of 85, and Green has been eagerly awaiting the handover of documents ever since. But apparently, nothing happened.
Shortly before Mr. Greene's death, the media announced that on 19 May 2004, Christie's auction house would sell some of the correspondence, diaries and manuscripts left behind by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the father of Holmes.
The manuscripts were priced at millions of dollars, and the media revealed that the sellers were three distant relatives of Conan Doyle. Mr. Green rushed to Christie's to investigate and found that the manuscripts were the same documents he had glimpsed at the home of Conan Doyle's younger daughter, Joan Conan Doyle.
Mr. Green claimed that he had evidence to prove that the manuscripts were not coming from the right direction. However, the relatives provided ms. Joan's will to the auction company, and she had not given birth to a descendant, and she had handed over the right to dispose of her father's relic to eight family members.
Mr. Green used his personal network of contacts in an attempt to prevent the auction from taking place. He was outraged that the interested bidders were mostly American collectors, and he stubbornly believed that the documents should be handed over to the British Library.
In addition, as a fan of Sherlock Holmes, he felt extremely uneasy that these documents were scattered in large numbers in the hands of many private collectors, so he was afraid that he would never see them again in his life.
Less than a month after the controversy, Mr. Green died suddenly and strangely, which could not help but make his family and friends doubt the truth of his death.
#04.
A few hours after the news of Mr. Green's suicide was announced, the incident went viral on the Internet, and lovers of Sherlock Holmes in the United Kingdom exploded on the Internet: "Can you strangle yourself? Why didn't the forensic doctors say that Green strangled himself to death with his own hands? Some fuxue fans have sworn that this death scene is a reference to a secret room murder novel created by Conan Doyle. Others have also used the "death curse" to analyze the possible supernatural power of this event.
Mr. Green's friends believed that he was the "biggest obstacle" to the Christie's auction because he had not only seen some of the documents, but was fully qualified to prove that Ms. Joan intended to donate all the documents to the British Museum. That's why they're so sure that Mr. Green's death "must have been conspiratorial."
Soon, Mr. Green's friends provided the media with the true identity of the American he had suspected. According to reports, the man was a senior employee of the Pentagon in the United States, responsible for covert operations. They were even convinced that the man was a close associate of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld.
But the American argues that he has always distinguished between work and his love of literary figures. He admitted that he and the deceased had worked together for some time in the mid-eighties, so he could confirm that Mr. Green's relationship with Ms. Joan had broken down in the early nineties. The reason for this is that Ms. Joan discovers that Green is using the information she provides to distort her father's views.
Mr. Green's friends confirmed the American's remarks, but they explained that Mr. Green's work was typical of the "reasonable and reasonable" style, and the American deliberately plucked some sensitive words from the article to attack Mr. Green, which led to Ms. Joan's later increasing alienation from Mr. Green. This broke Mr. Green's heart.
On 24 March, two days before Mr. Green's death, the American came to London, supposedly to attend a party hosted by the Sherlock Holmes Society. Upon hearing the news, Mr. Green canceled his plans to attend the gathering. He called a friend and said, "I don't want to see him!" I'm not going. The friend thought the American had frightened his friend.
Americans are sure to stress that they were involved in the incident only because they were agents of Ms. Joan's estate. He hadn't seen or spoken to Mr. Green for more than a year. As for the night of Green's death, he confessed with some embarrassment that he and his wife had participated in a re-tour of Jack the Ripper's crime site.
Despite public opinion, the auction took place less than two months after Green's body was found. And Mr. Richard Lancerone Green's memorial service is scheduled for May 22, a few days after the auction, which is the birthday of the great writer Conan Doyle.
In his will, Mr. Green made it clear that he would donate his collection to a public library in Portsmouth for easy access by other scholars. Because the collection was so large, it took Mr. Green's family two weeks to pull the entire collection away.
The total value of the collection was millions of dollars, and Mr. Green commented before his death: "Scholarship is scholarship, and we cannot be dominated by greed." ”
In fact, Mr. Green misunderstood Mrs. Joan Conan Doyle, a respectable lady who, on her deathbed, divided all her inheritance and gave the most important part of the document that belonged to her to the British Museum. After the auction, the documents were already in the British Museum.
Unfortunately, Mr. Green will never know that his lifelong wish has been fulfilled.
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