Resultados para "Silver Blaze" en Literatura y ficción

This is a story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes II collection. In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson. What was the mystery of the engineer's thumb? What was behind the disappearance of the race horse? Why did masked royalty walk up to see Holmes in Baker Street? These and other puzzles are solved in this collection by this bloodhound of a genius.

Holmes e Watson si recano a Dartmoor per indagare sulla misteriosa scomparsa di un cavallo da corsa di nome Silver Blaze, ma non si tratta dell'unico evento strano ad aver avuto luogo... Infatti, il giorno prima della gara, l'allenatore del cavallo, John Straker, è stato trovato morto. Silver Blaze è tratto da Le memorie di Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) nacque in Scozia e studiò medicina all'Università di Edimburgo.

One of the most popular of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, "Silver Blaze" focuses on the disappearance of a famous race horse on the eve of an important race, and on the apparent murder of its trainer.

The original collection of these stories, published in 1994 in England, did not include "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" because it was considered "too shocking." It was later added to the first American edition.