Iterative Edition Variant 2

One of the most popular Sherlock Holmes short stories, “Silver Blaze” focuses on the disappearance of the eponymous race horse (a famous winner, owned by a Colonel Ross) on the eve of an important race and on the apparent murder of its trainer. The tale is distinguished by its atmospheric Dartmoor setting and late-Victorian sporting milieu. It also features some of Conan Doyle’s most effective plotting, hingeing on the “curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”

One of Doyle’s sentimental pieces, the story is remarkable in that Holmes' deduction during the course of it proves incorrect. According to Dr. Watson: “...where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded... Now and again, however, it chanced that even when he erred the truth was still discovered.”

A young clerk, Hall Pycroft, consults Holmes with his suspicions concerning a company that has offered him a very well-paid job. Holmes, Watson and Pycroft travel by train to Birmingham, where the job is initially to be based, and Pycroft explains that he was recently made redundant from a stockbroking house. He eventually secured a new post with another group of stockbrokers, Mawson and Williams, in Lombard Street in the City. Before taking up the job, he was approached by Arthur Pinner, who offered him a managership with a newly established hardware distribution company, to be based in France.

In his university days, Holmes spent a month with his friend, Victor Trevor, at Victor’s father’s estate in Norfolk. While there, Holmes amazed his host, Victor’s father, who was a Justice of the Peace and a landowner. He had made his fortune in the goldfields in Australia. One of Holmes’s deductions was that the elder Mr. Trevor was once connected with someone with the initials “J. A.” whom he wanted to forget. His host then passed out on the table. Holmes had touched a sore spot, and possibly did not believe the old man’s explanation once he had come back to himself that J. A. had been an old lover.

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