The Lost Special by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1898) A Sherlock Holmes story?

This is a short story first published in The Strand Magazine in 1898, as part of the Round the Fire series. It seems to me, and many others, that Sherlock Holmes features in this story, although his name is never mentioned.

The story is about the disappearance of a 'special', a privately hired train. Much public debate ensues and one of the letters published in The Times is described as being from "an amateur reasoner of some celebrity at that date". What did Conan Doyle intend here? It's written in the style of Holmes, don't you think?

Anyway, it's a great story, with South Americans, northerners, a rather cocky Frenchman and a cameo appearance by the man himself.

It is read by Greg Wagland for Magpie Audio.

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