The Adventure of Silver Blaze
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"The Adventure of Silver Blaze" is one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective stories, centered on the mysterious disappearance of a racehorse and the murder of its trainer.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sherlock Holmes short story
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detective fiction work ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| author | Arthur Conan Doyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | part of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories ⓘ |
| centralAnimal | racehorse ⓘ |
| chronologyWithinSeries | one of the early Memoirs stories ⓘ |
| collection | The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| famousFor | use of a dog’s silence as a clue ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Colonel Ross
NERFINISHED
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Fitzroy Simpson NERFINISHED ⓘ Inspector Gregory NERFINISHED ⓘ John Straker NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Blaze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalDetective | Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Strand Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
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radio drama adaptations ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ |
| hasInvestigation |
investigation of John Straker’s death
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investigation of Silver Blaze’s disappearance ⓘ |
| involvesSport | horse racing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryInfluence | influenced later detective fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Dr. John Watson
NERFINISHED
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Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrator | Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableQuote | the curious incident of the dog in the night-time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1892 ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | George Newnes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Sherlock Holmes canon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotElement |
disappearance of a racehorse
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murder of a horse trainer ⓘ |
| publicationMedium | magazine ⓘ |
| series | Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Dartmoor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | England ⓘ |
| theme |
logical reasoning
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observation of negative evidence ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | late 19th century ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | Silver Blaze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workType | prose narrative ⓘ |
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