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The Five Orange Pips
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre
- crime fiction
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Series
- canon of Sherlock Holmes
- Followed by
- The Man with the Twisted Lip
- Follows
- The Boscombe Valley Mystery
- Narrative location
- London
- Image
- Sherlock Holmes in The Five Orange Pips.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Five Orange Pips
- illustrator
- Sidney Paget
- title
- The Five Orange Pips
- publication date
- 1891-00-00
- published in
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- language of work or name
- English language
- first line
- When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years ’82 and ’90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of these papers to illustrate.
- last line
- We waited long for news of the “Lone Star” of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough of a wave, with the letters “L. S.” carved upon it, and that is all which we shall ever know of the fate of the “Lone Star.”
- copyright status
- public domain
- characters
- Sherlock Holmes
- derivative work
- Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear
- place of publication
- United Kingdom
- form of creative work
- short story
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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.