Previously Unpublished Conan Doyle Novel to be Published

Posted on June 10, 2011

The Guardian reports that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel, The Narrative of John Smith, is about to be published for the first time this fall. The novel was reconstructed by Doyle after it was lost in the mail, but was never finished. The first published Conan Doyle novel was a Sherlock Holmes novel published in 1887.

The Narrative of John Smith is about a man, John Smith, reflecting on life, politics and religion, after he is bedridden because of gout.

The previously unpublished Doyle novel will be published as part of the British Library's Conan Doyle collection. It will be published by Rachel Foss, lead curator of modern literary manuscripts at the British Library.

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