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SHERLOCK HOLMES FANS LEAD FIGHT TO SAVE HOUSE.(Living)

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From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
Date: 20060731
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Byline: Sue Leeman Associated Press

HINDHEAD, England -- When Arthur Conan Doyle was told in 1893 that his consumptive wife had only months to live, he absorbed the diagnosis -- then went home and built her a house.

"Undershaw," an imposing red-brick edifice in a dry and sheltering valley near Hindhead, south of London, is credited with helping Louise Conan Doyle, known as Touie, to live an extra 13 years.

Today, "Undershaw's" windows are boarded, its ceilings discolored by mildew, the author's beloved tennis court swamped by a meadow of long, waving grasses. And the ...

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