Five dried orange pips, sent through the post with no letter, no explanation, only three initials scrawled beneath them. Twice before, the same type of letter arrived at an English door.
Twice, within weeks, a man was dead.
Now a third message has come, addressed to a man who comes seeking Sherlock Holme's help.
Somewhere across an ocean, an old debt has not been forgotten. Sherlock Holmes has seen ciphers, poisons, and blackmail — but rarely a warning this odd. This is a story about how far the past can reach.
Publication "The Five Orange Pips" first appeared in The Strand Magazine in November 1891. It was collected the following year in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Author Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who created Sherlock Holmes, the world's most enduring fictional detective. Beyond the Holmes canon, he wrote historical novels, science fiction, and non-fiction across a career spanning five decades.
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