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    How Watson Learned the Trick

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    "How Watson Learned the Trick" is a Sherlock Holmes parody written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1922. It concerns Doctor Watson attempting to demonstrate to Holmes how he has learned the latter's "superficial trick" of logical deduction by giving a summary of Holmes' current state of mind and plans for the day ahead, only for Holmes to then reveal that every single one of Watson's deductions is incorrect.

    Conan Doyle was one of several authors commissioned to provide books for the library of Queen Mary's Dolls' House; others included J. M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and W. Somerset Maugham. Conan Doyle was provided with a book approximately 1.5" x 1.25" (3.75 cm x 3.15 cm), into which he wrote the 503-word story of "How Watson Learned the Trick" by hand, taking up 34 pages. The original manuscript is still part of the Dolls' House library.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBoD E-Short
    Release dateJan 12, 2015
    ISBN9783734752261
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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. Before starting his writing career, Doyle attended medical school, where he met the professor who would later inspire his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. A Study in Scarlet was Doyle's first novel; he would go on to write more than sixty stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. He died in England in 1930.

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    • 4/5
      A near-facsimile of the Conan Doyle miniature book created for the library of Queen Mary's dollhouse, with a booklet providing backstory about the dollhouse, the library, Conan Doyle, and the short story. An interesting biblio-curiosity.
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      Sir Arthur Conan Doyle contributed his 1924 story, How Watson Learned the Trick, to Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House, a 1:12 miniature that Sir Edwin Lutyens constructed for Queen Mary, the wife of King George V. The story depicts Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes talking over breakfast, with Watson proposing to demonstrate that anyone may reproduce Holmes’ methods if they are observant enough. He goes through Holmes’ physical appearance, a letter he opened, and his reaction to the newspaper in order to make his case. Holmes appears supportive of Watson’s effort before he explains the true meaning of each item Watson described. In this, the story is a scenario, the type of moment that might appear at the very beginning of one of Doyle’s stories, and perfectly delightful and amusing for Sherlock Holmes fans. Like Doyle’s 1896 story, “The Field Bazaar,” this features a breakfast scenes and Watson’s efforts to reproduce Holmes’ methods. As a short, 24-page story that Doyle handwrote, it uses the third-person to best maximize available space. This edition reproduces the book as it appears in Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House complete with an informational booklet and a display box.