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The Five Orange Pips

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short story by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Author
Arthur Conan Doyle
First published
1985
Editions
16
Subjects
banks, Confederate States Army, barques, Ku Klux Klan, sailing ships, Fiction, general

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Key facts

Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Detective fiction short stories
Published in
Strand Magazine
Publication date
November 1891
Series
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Encyclopedic overview

"The Five Orange Pips", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fifth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in November 1891. This is also one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help, the other being "The Adventure of the Dancing Men".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Five Orange Pips” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.