But the former retained the glory with the help of a journalist who had been covering the race, the famous author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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And Simon Kinberg, author of the recent Sherlock Holmes franchise starter and the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, will also be involved as either another write or producer, or maybe both.

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After Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes, sending him hurtling over a waterfall, Holmes fans sent the author threatening letters and took to the streets in black arm bands.

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