Elementary, My Dea… actually, it’s fairly complicated.

“The British Library is urging that the planned sale of 3,000 personal documents of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle this May by auction house Christie’s in the United Kingdom be halted until a dispute over the papers’ true owners has been resolved. The British Library has argued that some of the papers… actually belongs to them since Conan Doyle’s daughter Jean Conan Doyle bequeathed some of the documents to them when she died in 1997. Meanwhile, the Toronto Public Library is concerned that the Christie’s material… might actually have been part of a legacy from Conan Doyle’s daughter-in-law, Anna Conan Doyle, who left five items to the library’s Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, the largest publicly accessible collection of Conan Doyle items in the world.”