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Conan Doyle’s earliest Dartmoor story was ‘The Winning Shot’, published in ‘Bow Bells’ in 1883 following his failed attempt to establish a medical practice in Plymouth in 1882. Until the final paragraph’s twist, its narrator is Lottie Underwood, fiancée of Charley, elder son of Colonel Pillar of Roborough. She and her mother, other family and…