The Mystery Death of Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Aficionado

Unexplained : True Tales of Unexplained Mysteries with Bestselling Author Steph Young

Steph Young

History, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.2 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Was Richard Lancelyn Green killed by a rival, an assassin, or by his own hands? Lancelyn Green was probably the foremost collector of the personal papers and materials of the great detective writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Lancelyn Green also probably had the largest collection of memorabilia of Sherlock Holmes ever gathered too, and his death would ironically turn out to be most fitting for a plot in one of the Sherlock Holmes novels; though the solution to his death remains cryptically unsolved. On the 24th of May 2004, Ricard Lancelyn Green was discovered dead in his home in Kensington London. A shoelace had been wound around his neck and then tightened with the handle of a wooden spoon. He had been garrotted. There was no sign of forced entry into his apartment. It almost appeared to be a locked-room mystery. Just prior to his death, Lancelyn Green had said “someone” was after him, yet his death looked more like a suicide. He was found lying on his bed, surrounded by stuffed toys and a bottle of Gin… Said The London Times, ‘a mystery as tantalizing as any to unfold at 221B Baker Street.’ Was Richard Lancelyn Green killed by a rival, an assassin, or by his own hands? Also featured in one of my books Tales of Mystery Unexplained

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0:00.0	The Mystery Death of Sherlock Holmes' greatest fan.
0:16.6	Richard Lancel and Green was probably the foremost collector of the personal papers and materials
0:21.9	of the great detective writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
0:27.9	Lancel and Green also probably had the largest collection of memorabilia of Sherlock Holmes
0:33.7	ever gathered two, and his death would ironically turn out to be most fitting for a plot in one of the Sherlock Holmes novels, though the solution to his death remains cryptically unsolved.
0:47.7	On the 24th of May 2004, Richard Lansel and Green was discovered dead in his home in Kensington, London.
0:56.4	A shoelace had been wound around his neck and then tightened with the handle of a wooden spoon.
1:02.8	He'd been garrotted.
1:04.6	There was no sign of false entry into his apartment.
1:08.2	It almost appeared to be a locked room mystery.
1:11.9	Just prior to his death,
1:13.6	Lancel and Green had said,
1:15.5	someone was after him,
1:17.5	yet his death looked more like a suicide.
1:20.5	He was found lying on his bed
1:22.1	surrounded by stuffed toys
1:23.8	and a bottle of gin.
1:25.8	A graduate of Oxford University, Green had been co-author of the first extensive biography of
1:32.9	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and he had also published a collection of Conan Doyle's writing that had
1:38.1	never been put into book form before, comprising stories, essays and personal letters.
1:43.7	Though wealthy Mr. Green was said to be a shy man,
1:46.6	he'd often been a public speaker on his favourite topic, and at events for the Sherlock Holmes Society,
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