The Curious Experience of the Patterson Family on the Island of Uffa by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Title: The Curious Experience of the Patterson Family on the Island of Uffa

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

Publisher: Not known 

Source book: The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde (Thursday Next #3)

Thursday Next and Miss Haversham use this book to jump from the Great Library to deliver Lucy Deane to prison on the Scottish island; she has been exiled from The Mill on the Floss for attempted fiction infraction (which seems to mean trying to change the plot of a book).

The Curious Experience of the Patterson Family on the Island of Uffa is an unpublished, unwritten book mentioned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (illustrated), but a copy exists in the Great Library. Sir Arthur writes that he discarded this title along with Rigoletto and his Abominable Wife, and The Tired Captain. 

In The Sherlock Holmes Stories Dr Watson mentions several stories which have not been recounted: The Adventure of the Paradol Chamber, The Amateur Mendicant Society, The British Barque Sophy Anderson, The Singular Adventures of the Grice Pattersons in the Island of Uffa, and finally The Camberwell Poisoning Case.

Perhaps Sir Arthur should have consulted Dr Watson before writing his memoirs? Or vice versa.

The Singular Adventures of the Grice Pattersons in the Island of Uffa: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure is abook by Bob Bishop.

Uffa appears to be a fictitious island but it also features in Our Midnight Visitor by Conan Doyle.

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