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Today's Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Adventure of Silver Blaze, brings Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend Dr. Watson into the world of horse racing.

Silver Blaze is the favorite horse to win a big event.

In Silver Blaze is also where the infamous line,

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night comes from,

which is a common line that Holmes uses

as he's deducing his hypothesis

for the crime he's investigating.

In this tale of detection, Holmes

uncovers a sinister plot and an unlikely murderer.

And now, the adventure of Silver Blaze

by Arthur Conan Doyle.

I am afraid Watson that I shall have to go, said Holmes,

as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

Go, where too?

To Dartmoor, to Kings Pylund.

I was not surprised.

Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed up in this extraordinary case,

which was the one topic of conversation through the length and breadth of England.

For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest and his brows knitted,

charging and recharging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco.

And absolutely deaf to any of my questions or remarks.

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