"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. Long one of the most popular of the stories, "Silver Blaze" focuses on the disappearance of a famed race horse on the eve of an important race, and the apparent murder of the horse's trainer. The story features some of Conan Doyle's most effective plotting, hinging on the famed "curious incidence of the dog in the night-time." (The dog did nothing in the night-time, which was the curious incidence.) The tale's atmospheric setting in English countryside and late Victorian sporting mileu also distinguish it.
