"why should anyone play me such a trick?" [CARD]

After a brief hiatus, we're back to the third in our series of The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes — stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that are technically not part of the original Canon.

This is the shortest of all of the Apocrypha and it was created for the British Royal Family in a special edition. "How Watson Learned the Trick" is a lovely addition to the non-Canonical apocrypha. It's literally a Trifle.

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• "How Watson Learned the Trick" (Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia)
• Queen Mary's Dolls' House (Royal Collection Trust)
• The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes (The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library)
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