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The two-and-a-half page story, titled 'Sherlock Homes: Discovering
the Border Burghs and, by deduction, the Brig Bazaar', is about
the sleuth and Watson's trip to the town.
It is believed the story - about Holmes deducing Watson is going
on a trip to Selkirk - is the first unseen Holmes story by Doyle
since the last was published over 80 years ago.
He was prompted to write the tale after the town was struck by
a great flood in 1902 and the town's Wood Brig crossing the Ettrick
in the Scottish Borders was washed away.
The great-grandfather from Selkirk, who found the book tied together
with string, said: 'In Selkirk there was a wooden bridge that was
put up some time before it was flooded in 1902.