Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was very clever when he made a horse the central figure in the tale titled "Silver Blaze," because as was described in the story, no one suspected that the horse may have committed the killing of Straker. This is exemplified when the local constable suspected that the horse was kidnapped, and Straker was killed when trying to stop the kidnappers by falling on his own knife. But in fact, Sherlock Holmes was clever enough to discover the truth; Straker was attempting to lame the horse and the horse accidentally killed him when it was frightened and ran away. Because the horse committed the killing of Straker, there is no legal recourse against an animal that actually acted in self-defense. The really surprising part was how Holmes discovered that the bookmaker, Fitzroy Simpson, the elusive stranger who dropped his handkerchief, was not the killer as...
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