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Silver Blaze

21 illustrations · 3 chapters

Chapter 1Holmes lays out the Silver Blaze case on the train

  1. A damp grey London street from above, one amber window where Holmes and Watson sit
  2. Holmes's forefinger hovers over his open palm, ready to tick off the case's first point
  3. Grave on the train, Holmes tells Watson of the trainer's death on the moor
  4. Holmes leans toward Watson, counting off the damning facts against Fitzroy Simpson
  5. Holmes spreads his hands in doubt, summing up the police case against Fitzroy Simpson

Chapter 2Holmes finds the horse's trail and sets his trap

  1. Dartmoor at dusk, vast and empty, with Tavistock's thin steeples glowing at its centre
  2. At the halted landau, Watson touches Holmes's arm and Holmes starts from his reverie
  3. In the villa passage, the haggard widow grips the Inspector's sleeve as Holmes watches
  4. A muddy finger points at a half-burned wax vesta in the trampled mud of the hollow
  5. Holmes lowers Silver Blaze's cast horseshoe over a fresh hoof-print in the wet earth
  6. At the Mapleton gates, the furious trainer bursts out and bullies his groom
  7. Before the stable gates, the detective leans in and whispers a sentence to the trainer
  8. On the moor, Holmes announces the night train to London as a thunderstruck Watson halts
  9. In the landau, Holmes turns the Inspector's remark about the dog into the key clue

Chapter 3The Wessex Cup and Holmes's solution

  1. Winchester racecourse from above on Wessex Cup day, with a packed grand stand
  2. A bay colt in black and red canters past Colonel Ross, who does not recognise him
  3. Six horses thunder up the straight as the disguised Silver Blaze gathers to burst past
  4. Holmes quietly answers the Colonel's request for the murderer of John Straker
  5. Holmes steps past Colonel Ross and lays his hand on the disguised bay's neck
  6. In the Pullman car, Colonel Ross slaps his knee as Holmes watches, dryly amused
  7. Holmes snaps his arm out in a kicking arc to show how the horse struck Straker