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Tonight, we\u2019ll read the conclusion to \u201cThe Adventure of Silver Blaze,\u201d a story found in \u201cThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes\u201d written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1892. If you haven\u2019t listened to the first half of this story yet, it was the episode that aired right before this one.\n\nOne of the most popular Sherlock Holmes short stories, "Silver Blaze" focuses on the disappearance of the winning race horse on the eve of an important race and on the apparent murder of its trainer.\xa0\n\nIn the first episode, Sherlock and Watson travel to Dartmoor to investigate the disappearance of the great race horse Silver Blaze and the murder of the horse's trainer, John Straker. Bookmaker Fitzroy Simpson had come to Dartmoor to gather information about Silver Blaze and his stablemate Bayard. He had approached both Straker's maid and a stable boy the night of the horse's disappearance and has been arrested for the murder.\n\n\u2014 read by N \u2014\nSign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to\xa0snoozecast.com/plus!\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices