The Adventure of Silver Blaze
- Silver Blaze
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- Adventure of Silver Blaze, The
- Type
- Short Story
- Language
- English
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Wikipedia
"The Adventure of Silver Blaze", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the first from the 12 in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in December 1892.
Doyle considered "Silver Blaze" among his favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. One of the most popular Sherlock Holmes short stories, "Silver Blaze" focuses on the disappearance of the eponymous race horse (a famous winner, owned by a Colonel Ross) on the eve of an important race and on the apparent murder of its trainer. The tale is distinguished by its atmospheric Dartmoor setting and late-Victorian sporting milieu. The plotting hinges on the "curious incident of the dog in the night-time":
Annotation
Detective short story first published in The Strand Magazine, December 1892. It is part of the Sherlock Holmes series and appeared in the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894).Last modified: 2020-10-08 (revision #30878)
Editions
| Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | Hardcover | ? | 1894 |
| The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | eBook | ? | 2018-05-23 |
| Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I | Paperback | 0-553-21241-9 | 2003-09 |
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- The Adventure of Silver Blaze was written by Arthur Conan Doyle
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- 2023-01-20