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An extremely rare, surviving page of the original manuscript for Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles has emerged for sale in the US for £145,000.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle released the tale featuring the world famous Sherlock Holmes in 1902, reviving the fictional detective he killed off eight years earlier.
The page is one of the 185 pages in the original manuscript which were offered to dealers as part of the book's extensive publicity campaign.
However, since Doyle wrote on acidic paper, most have disintegrated over time and only 37 are known to exist today - including all of Chapter 11 which is preserved in the New York Public Library.
An extremely rare, surviving page (pictured) from Sherlock Holmes manuscript , The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is being sold for £145,000 in Dallas, Texas
The 8ins by 13ins handwritten page being sold, which is still in reasonablly good condition, is headed 'Chapter XIII, Fixing The Nets'.
It involves Holmes and Watson discussing a mysterious murder on the moor, and whether to arrest a suspect. It has a line crossed out where Sir Conan Doyle edited the piece.
In dialogue written on the
