The Adventure of Silver Blaze, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Synopsis
Long one of the most popular of the stories, Silver Blaze focuses on the disappearance of the eponymous race horse, a famous winner, on the eve of an important race and on the apparent murder of the horse's trainer. The story features some of Conan Doyle's most effective plotting, hinging on the famed "curious incident of the dog in the night-time":
Gregory (SY detective): Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time.
Holmes: That was the curious incident.
(Taken from The Adventure of Silver Blaze)
This scene was the inspiration for the title of the 2002 book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The tale's atmospheric setting in English countryside and late Victorian sporting milieu also distinguish it.
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