The Five Orange Pips by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Five Orange Pips is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes. The story begins with a man named John Scott who receives a package containing five orange pips, which he believes to be a message from his dead wife's ghost. Holmes investigates the matter and discovers that the pips are actually a signature of a notorious criminal known as "The Abbey Grange Murderer." The story concludes with Holmes revealing the identity of the criminal and solving the mystery.

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · First published 1893 · Genre: Mystery, Crime, Detective Fiction · 8,728 words

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When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to him.

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• Work type: Novel
• Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Date: 1893 CE
• Language: English
• Genres: Mystery, Crime, Detective Fiction, Short Story, Suspense
• Length: 8,728 words
• Structure: 1 section, 184 paragraphs
• Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)

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Genres

• Mystery — This is a Sherlock Holmes story, which typically involves solving complex crimes and mysteries.
• Crime — The plot revolves around a case Sherlock Holmes investigates involving a crime.
• Detective Fiction — The protagonist, Sherlock Holmes, is a detective and the plot revolves around his investigational work.
• Short Story — This work is part of a compilation of short Sherlock Holmes stories.

Tags

mystery · detective · Sherlock Holmes · Watson · crime · suspense · investigation · puzzle · clues · murder · secrets · threat

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