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    The Five Orange Pips
    The Five Orange Pips
    The Five Orange Pips
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    The Five Orange Pips

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    John Openshaw lives with his uncle Elias, who used to live on a plantation in the States. Strange things have been happening of late in their home. There's a door that is always locked and his uncle's behaviour has become erratic. One day, a letter arrives from India with only the mention "K. K. K." on it. It contained five orange pips. "The Five Orange Pips" is part of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". -
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    PublisherSAGA Egmont
    Release dateSep 28, 2020
    ISBN9788726586244
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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859. He became a doctor in 1882. When this career did not prove successful, Doyle started writing stories. In addition to the popular Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels, Doyle also wrote historical novels, romances, and plays.

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      The Five Orange Pips - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

      Arthur Conan Doyle

      The Five Orange Pips

      SAGA Egmont

      The Five Orange Pips

      The characters and use of language in the work do not express the views of the publisher. The work is published as a historical document that describes its contemporary human perception.

      Copyright © 1891, 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle and SAGA Egmont

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      ISBN: 9788726586244

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      SAGA Egmont www.saga-books.com – a part of Egmont, www.egmont.com

      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. Some, too, have baffled his analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are points in connection with it which never have been, and probably never will be, entirely cleared up.

      The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault

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