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It happed in spring when Sherlock was walking in the park with his friend Dr. Watson. Sherlock Holmes suffered from tedium without work. At that time at Sherlock’s house had come strange guest and forgot his pipe. Returned home and looked at this thing, Holmes described this person exactly he was. His strange visitor was Mr. Grant Munro, he was a merchant of tobacco. Once his wife Effie went out, and returned very pale and panted. Munro didn’t know what Effie did at the highway at 3 a.m. He asked Holms to looked into this case because thought that his wife deceived him. She had been from America and had a husband and a daughter. But they had died.

Once in London on Christmas Eve at the hotel has committed a larceny. Countess of Morcar has been stolen a precious diamond which was called Blue Carbuncle. It was one of the most expensive gems in the world. Suspicions has fallen on John Horner he has been working at the hotel as a plumber. He was imprisoned for robbery because previously he had served out in prison for the same crime. Plumber to denied a charge but nobody believed him. At the same time on one of the streets of London ruffians attacked the man. Nearly of that place was walking a commissionaire Peterson and like an honest person he had decided help that man and to defended against of them. The attacked man had run away and dropped the goose which he carried with him. Peterson took the goose home to eat the bird and his wife had pulled out of it a diamond. This diamond the honest man Peterson had brought to Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes had the new investigation. All of England was discussing the tragedy what happened in the stables of King’s Pyland in Dartmoor. Before the crime on the stables where was a horse named Silver Blaze came a Fitzroy Simpson. He worked as a bookmaker in horse racing. He asked too many questions and it angered duty groom. The infuriated groom hardly set a guard dog on him. The same evening, after dinner, Silver’s coach John Straker went to the stables to check was everything alright and nobody saw him alive anymore. The body had found his wife and nearly was the groom. The groom was under the influence of the drug and horse had missed. Silver Blaze had disappeared just before the race for the Wessex Cup. It was the main favorite of the competition stallion. All available evidence led to the bookmaker Simpson and police arrested him.