Title: The Lost Special

Title: The Lost Special Title Record # 603257
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Date: 1898-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Series: Round the Fire
Series Number: 3
Language: English

Note: A non-speculative detective story. First published in the Strand Magazine, August 1898.

Synopsis: "A foreigner hires a special train from Liverpool to Manchester. It never arrives but vanishes into thin air." (Books & Boots)

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Translations

Year	Title
1898	The Story of the Lost Special [as by A. Conan Doyle]
1925	The Lost Special [as by A. Conan Doyle]
1968	The Lost Special [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]

Year	Language	Title
1910^ⓘTranslated by Louis Labat, first in Je sais tout #70, November 15, 1910.	French	Le train perdu
1973^ⓘTranslated by Paola Forti	Italian	Il treno scomparso [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
1980^ⓘTranslated by Louis Labat.	French	Le train volé
1981	Portuguese	O Enigma do Trem Perdido

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Round the Fire Stories	1908-00-00	Arthur Conan Doyle	The McClure Company			3+ 356	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Round the Fire Stories	1908-00-00	Arthur Conan Doyle	Smith, Elder & Co.		6/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	382	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Tales of Terror and Mystery	1922-00-00	Arthur Conan Doyle	John Murray		2/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	310	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Conan Doyle Stories	1929-00-00	Arthur Conan Doyle	John Murray		20/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	xii+ 1201	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Conan Doyle Stories	1939-00-00	Arthur Conan Doyle	John Murray			xii+ 1201	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Conan Doyle Stories	1940-00-00	Arthur Conan Doyle	John Murray			xii+ 1201	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Conan Doyle Stories	1945-00-00	Arthur Conan Doyle	John Murray			xii+ 1201	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Conan Doyle Stories	1949-00-00	Arthur Conan Doyle	John Murray		7/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	xii+ 1201	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Conan Doyle Stories	1951-00-00	Arthur Conan Doyle	John Murray			xii+ 1201	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Conan Doyle Stories	1956-00-00	Arthur Conan Doyle	John Murray			xii+ 1201	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Conan Doyle Stories	1960-00-00	Arthur Conan Doyle	John Murray			xii+ 1201	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Tales of Terror and Mystery	1979-00-00	Arthur Conan Doyle	Penguin Books	0-14-004878-2	£^?£: UK pound	224	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Mysterious Railway Stories	1984-00-00	ed. William Pattrick	W. H. Allen	0-491-03112-2	£8.95^?£: UK pound	255	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Bruce Pennington
Round the Fire Stories	1991-05-00	Arthur Conan Doyle	Chronicle Books	0-87701-883-9	$9.95^?$: US dollar	226	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Alex Laurant
Round the Fire Stories	2015-12-22	Arthur Conan Doyle	MysteriousPress.com / Open Road	978-1-4804-5343-2	$0.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Round the Fire Stories	2017-02-04	Arthur Conan Doyle	Project Gutenberg	54109	$0.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll

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