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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuckle is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,

and it is the seventh story of 12 in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

It was first published in Strand Magazine in January of 1892.

The plot revolves around a rare blue carbuncle, and a carbuncle is a type of semi-precious stone.

That has gone missing.

Watson visits homes at Christmas time and finds him contemplating a battered old hat,

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