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3 января 2014 г., 21:50
From the "Introduction":
He considered how he could get around the Strand's latest approach, and decided to ask one thousand pounds for the new series in the hope that this would prove a deterrent. (He had been paid thirty guineas for each of the stories in the first series, and fifty guineas for each of the second). The ploy didn't work: the Strand accepted his terms without hesitation, and he was forced to begin considering ideas for the stories that would eventually become The Memoires of Sherlock Holmes.
