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Sarah Dunnigan, a senior lecturer in English Literature at University of
Edinburgh, said: 'This seems like a really fun piece, it's self-parodic,
makes a playful jibe against journalists, and wittily compresses Scottish
Borders history in an affectionate tribute to Selkirk - all whilst leaving
the reader wondering where both the story, and Watson, are heading.
'It feels like Conan Doyle really enjoyed writing it.'
Sir Conan Doyle returned to the town a few months later with a cricket team
to play Selkirk.
In 1905 he gifted a now-lost Border league football trophy, called the Conan
Doyle Cup, last won by Kelso in 1937-38.
A year later, Conan Doyle stood as a Unionist candidate for Westminster
in the nearby Hawick Burghs constituency.
The booklet will be on show at the Cross Keys Selkirk Pop-up Community Museum
from Saturday, along with Mr Elliot's painting of the replaced bridge.