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