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Banned Books Awareness: Sherlock Holmes

On Thursday, August 11, 2011, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once again made headlines, but it wasn’t for literary accomplishment or news of a long-lost Sherlock Holmes crime buster. He, instead, found himself on newswires around the world for having one of his books banned. That night a school board in Albemarle County, Virginia, removed the […] … learn more→