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Victorian Mysteries

Silver Blaze

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  • 1966 first published
  • 66 pages
  • 24 editions
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Published in 1966, Silver Blaze is a Victorian mystery novella by Arthur Conan Doyle. Much of the action takes place in Wessex and Dartmoor. It features Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson and Fitzroy Simpson. It deals with horse racing, Opium, race horses and scalpels.

12 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 24 editions across 5 languages.

It runs to roughly 66 pages — about an hour of reading at an average pace.

About Silver Blaze

When a horse called Silver Blaze, the favourite to win the Wessex Cup, disappears in mysterious circumstances and its trainer is murdered, the story is front page news. But is Fitzroy Simpson the murderer? Holmes and Watson are called into find out.
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Themes, setting & tropes

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  • Children's stories
  • English children's stories
  • English Detective and mystery stories
  • Horse racing
  • Mystery and detective stories
  • Opium
  • Race horses
  • Scalpels
  • Children's fiction
  • Mystery & detective
  • Holmes, sherlock
  • Constitutional courts
  • Kuwait. Maḥkamah al-Dustūrīyah

Quick answers

Who wrote Silver Blaze?

Silver Blaze was written by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1966.

What genre is Silver Blaze?

It is usually shelved as Victorian Mysteries.

How long is Silver Blaze?

The median edition has 66 pages, about about an hour of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Silver Blaze?

Readers who like it often enjoy Sherlock Holmes and a Scandal in Bohemia, The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures and The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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