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Silver Blaze
Chapter 1 · 5 illustrations Holmes lays out the Silver Blaze case on the train
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1·1 A damp grey London street from above, one amber window where Holmes and Watson sit
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1·2 Holmes's forefinger hovers over his open palm, ready to tick off the case's first point
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1·3 Grave on the train, Holmes tells Watson of the trainer's death on the moor
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1·4 Holmes leans toward Watson, counting off the damning facts against Fitzroy Simpson
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1·5 Holmes spreads his hands in doubt, summing up the police case against Fitzroy Simpson
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Chapter 2 · 9 illustrations Holmes finds the horse's trail and sets his trap
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2·1 Dartmoor at dusk, vast and empty, with Tavistock's thin steeples glowing at its centre
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2·2 At the halted landau, Watson touches Holmes's arm and Holmes starts from his reverie
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2·3 In the villa passage, the haggard widow grips the Inspector's sleeve as Holmes watches
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2·4 A muddy finger points at a half-burned wax vesta in the trampled mud of the hollow
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2·5 Holmes lowers Silver Blaze's cast horseshoe over a fresh hoof-print in the wet earth
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2·6 At the Mapleton gates, the furious trainer bursts out and bullies his groom
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2·7 Before the stable gates, the detective leans in and whispers a sentence to the trainer
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2·9 On the moor, Holmes announces the night train to London as a thunderstruck Watson halts
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2·10 In the landau, Holmes turns the Inspector's remark about the dog into the key clue
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Chapter 3 · 7 illustrations The Wessex Cup and Holmes's solution
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3·1 Winchester racecourse from above on Wessex Cup day, with a packed grand stand
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3·2 A bay colt in black and red canters past Colonel Ross, who does not recognise him
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3·3 Six horses thunder up the straight as the disguised Silver Blaze gathers to burst past
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3·4 Holmes quietly answers the Colonel's request for the murderer of John Straker
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3·5 Holmes steps past Colonel Ross and lays his hand on the disguised bay's neck
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3·6 In the Pullman car, Colonel Ross slaps his knee as Holmes watches, dryly amused
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3·7 Holmes snaps his arm out in a kicking arc to show how the horse struck Straker
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