'Lost' Sherlock Homes story discovered in forgotten attic

More than a hundred years after it was written, a new Sherlock Holmes story has been discovered in a forgotten attic by 80-year-old Walter Elliot.

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According to the Guardian, the unsigned, 1,300-word long story is part of a pamphlet printed in 1903 to raise funds to restore a bridge the Scottish town of Selkirk.

Meanwhile, The Telegraph reports  that this new found story is supposedly about Holmes deducing that Watson is going to go on a trip to the town of Selkirk. This is the first unseen Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle since the last was published over 80 years ago.

The story, based in the Scottish town, opens with a journalist trying to hunt down the sleuth detective in London for a quote. The journalist catches Sherlock Holmes in conversation with his trusted partner, Dr John Watson, about a trip to Edinburgh to solve the "mysteries of the Secret Cabinet." However he overhears Watson declining to accompany him on the journey because he is going elsewhere that day. Holmes then uses his deductive skills to guess where he's going — "to Selkirk in aide of a Bridge."

Here is the full transcript of 'Sherlock Holmes: Discovering the Border Burghs and, by deduction, the Brig Bazaar.'