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
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
Fitzroy Simpson NERFINISHED
Inspector Gregory NERFINISHED
John Straker NERFINISHED
Silver Blaze NERFINISHED
fictionalDetective Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
firstPublishedIn The Strand Magazine NERFINISHED
genre detective fiction
mystery fiction
hasAdaptation film adaptations
radio drama adaptations
television adaptations
hasInvestigation investigation of John Straker’s death
investigation of Silver Blaze’s disappearance
involvesSport horse racing
language English
literaryInfluence influenced later detective fiction
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
mainCharacter Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED
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
murder of a horse trainer
publicationMedium magazine
series Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
setting Dartmoor NERFINISHED
settingCountry England
theme logical reasoning
observation of negative evidence
timePeriodInFiction late 19th century
titleCharacter Silver Blaze NERFINISHED
workType prose narrative

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes containsStory The Adventure of Silver Blaze