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  The Five Orange Pips - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Five Orange Pips", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fifth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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 The five orange pips
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 The Five Orange Pips When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Five Orange Pips When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave.
There he was, sitting with a newly opened enve- lope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the outstretched palm of the other one.
I found this single sheet upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction.
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 The View from Sherlock Peoria 25
Five of those were Hansoms, eight were Illustrious Clients, two were Criterion Bar members from Chicagoland, three were Norwegian Explorers from Minneapolis, and two were Parallel Cases/Occupants of the Empty House from St. Louis.
The main group of Sherlockians were then given a quiz on "Five Orange Pips" by my wife, Kathy, and I lead the sequestered writers on an exercise of round-robin Sherlockian scholarship.
After five minutes, they all had to pass their work to the person on their right (or left, I kept mixing that up), who continued the essay.
www.sherlockpeoria.net /ViewFromSP/ViewSP112402.html   (1559 words)

  
 The Five Orange Pips
No fewer than 6 unchronicled cases are mentioned at the beginning of The Five Orange Pips.
They are the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, the Amateur Mendicant Society, the loss of the British bark Sophy Anderson, the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons, the Camberwell poisoning case, and the Tankerville Club scandal.
The Five Orange Pips is an Adventure which leaves many questions unanswered.
www.bcpl.net /~lmoskowi/hounds/intro/FIVE.HTM   (768 words)

  
 Feb04-1
Uniformly, the only contents of the packages were five orange "peeps" (small marshmallow chicks, that is) and a card bearing the initials "K.K.K.," with no indication of the sender.
After an exhaustive investigation, the perpetrators have been revealed to have been the Sinister Ballarat Gang, a scion society of the BSI, whose mastermind (and, according to some sources, sole member) is the notorious Kevin Reed, author of the "Cockroach Bones" series of scurrilous tales parodying the Master Detective.
To his utter shock and amazement five orange peeps were inside, sent by none other than the Ku Klux Klan.
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 Essay or Coursework - Look carefully at 'The Speckled Band' and 'The Five Orange Pips.' How does the writer create ...
In 'The Five Orange Pips' John says that "I have felt like one of those poor rabbits when the snake writhing towards it." John being the rabbit and the KKK is the snake coming to kill him.
This is aimed at the part of the audience who have read Sherlock Holmes books before, and if you have read them and think they are strange and mystical and he says this one is more it will make you read on.
In 'The Five Orange Pips' Watson says, while talking about other cases, "Some, too, have baffled his analytical skill, and would be, as narrati
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 Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century is a 26-episode animated television series placing Sherlock Holmes in a science fiction setting.
Some episodes are direct rewrites of the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle—such as "The Empty House", "The Speckled Band", "The Five Orange Pips", "The Red-Headed League", and "The Engineer's Thumb"—while others are drastically different from the stories they're supposed to be based on.
1-15 #106 7 February 2000 The Five Orange Pips (The Five Orange Pips)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_in_the_22nd_Century   (990 words)

  
 The Camberwell Poisoning Case
At the beginning of The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips, Watson tells us that the year 1887 furnished a long series of cases to the Master.
In the Camberwell case we are obliged to eliminate this latter possibility, and in order to do so we must suppose that the victim, upon going to bed, lost either the use of his hands or the custody of his watch.
The first alternative is certainly so bizarre that we cannot adopt it without our thus contradicting Watson's unfavorable contrast between the singularities of this case and those of the Five Orange Pips.
www.dandrake.com /porlock/camberwell.html   (4474 words)

  
 The Final Problem
Westchester County, N.Y.: The Five Orange Pips, 1955.
Earlier criticism of Five focuses on two themes: the first that the protagonists's uncle,as a member of the KKK, brings death to his family; and the second that Moriarty, as a distant relative in the Openshaw family, directs the murders for personal gain.
Five is examined and the location of the Openshaws' house in Horsham.
special.lib.umn.edu /rare/ush/06B2.html   (17249 words)

  
 Sherlockian.Net: The View Halloa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It hasn't rained this hard since "The Five Orange Pips," and there seems to be something about the "wild, tempestuous" weather that brings out the worst in Canonical people who have past connections to secret societies.
Oddly enough, "The Golden Pince-nez" has another feature in common with "The Five Orange Pips," and that is - a pair of golden pince-nez.
John Openshaw wore them in "The Five Orange Pips," but the latest pair appears from the pocket of Stanley Hopkins, who prised them from the hand of the doomed Willougby Smith, who snatched them from the face of the doomed Anna.
www.sherlockian.net /canon/halloa/gold.html   (493 words)

  
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During that time I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended with the last generation.
Its outrages were usually preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic but generally recognized shape-a sprig of oak-leaves in some parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others.
You can understand that this register and diary may implicate some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." "Then the page we have seen-" "Is such as we might expect.
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 Amazon.com: The Oxford Sherlock Holmes : 9 volume set (The Oxford Sherlock Holmes): Books: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,Owen ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In "The Five Orange Pips," unravels a plot by Klu Klux Klan members to retrieve sensitive documents from the Openshaw family, or kill all of them in the process.
And of the five collections of Holmes short stories (about a dozen in each collection), "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (published in 1892) was the first and is easily the most popular and best of the five.
After some brilliant detective work involving disguises and acting, Holmes is outwitted by the woman Irene Adler in his quest to help the hereditary king of Bohemia regain a scandalous photograph from her.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192123297?v=glance   (2638 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Five Orange Pips/The Man with the Twisted Lip/The Adventure of the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Amazon.co.uk: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Five Orange Pips/The Man with the Twisted Lip/The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle/The Adventure of the Speckled Band.
The Five Orange Pips/The Man With the Twisted Lip/The Adventure of Blue Carbuncle/The Adventure of the Speckled Band Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these adventures, part of the unique fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.
The four stories dramatised:- The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle and The Adventure of the Speckled Band are all superb.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/056340907X   (607 words)

  
 THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Vol. 2: Classical CD Reviews - Sept 1999. Music on the Web (UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
David Timson's voice is sharp as Holmes, conservative as Watson, deep in ruffians, high pitched with women, a whole plethora of characters are heard with almost effortless mastery by this born actor!
We are transported to rural Bedfordshire and that bleak house where fuller's earth was supposed to be pressed with the chilling narrative revealing some singular escapades by the young engineer.
As stated beforehand, my favorite is 'The Five Orange Pips' where a terrifying web of crime and retribution based in America comes to British shores and kills innocent victims, unaware of some terrible secret left by ancestors.
www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/sept99/holmes.htm   (397 words)

  
 Abebooks Search Results - Doyle and Five Orange Pips
Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes The Five Orange Pips/The Man With The Twisted Lip/The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle/The Adventure Of The Speckled Band.
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES: Holmes's Occupation; A Scandal in Bohemia; The Red-Headed League; The Boscombe Valley Myster; The Five Orange Pips; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle; The Adventure of the Speckled Band; et al (ISBN: 0451521064)
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: A Scandal in Bohemia; The Red-Headed League; A Case of Identity; The Boscombe Valley Mystery; The Five Orange Pips; The Man with the Twisted Lip; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/an/Doyle/tn/Five+Orange+Pips   (1347 words)

  
 The Diogenes Club: The Five Orange Pips
dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate.
the pips to A, B, and C' -- that is, sent the society's warning to
He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces
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 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Every shade of colour they were—straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivid flame-coloured tint.
I was then much surprised and interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and the other a plain one.
One was buttoned only in the two lower buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and fifth.
books.onelang.com /The-Adventures-of-Sherlock-Holmes   (20144 words)

  
 Mobipocket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Five Orange Pips—A man's uncle and father had died under mysterious circumstances after receiving five orange pips.
Two years later, the man received five orange pips.
A Scandal in Bohemia—Sherlock Holmes did not think much of women's intelligence, until he encountered Irene Adler.
www.mobipocket.com /mobile/eBooks/bookdetails.asp?bookid=6128   (134 words)

  
 Sherlock Holmes: The House of Fear Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
This excellent Sherlock Holmes adventure is based on Conan Doyle's The Five Orange Pips.
Most of the action takes place in a remote Scottish mansion, home of "The Good Companions," a group of elderly eccentrics.
After taking out insurance policies on one another, the club members begin dropping like flies, each death preceded by a mailed envelope containing an orange pip.
www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/36/3236/features.php   (202 words)

  
 Library Card and Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The same card can be used in any of the town and branch libraries in Monroe County, including the main library.
Children may obtain a card if they are age five or in kindergarten and may borrow any of the items in our collection and access any electronic resources.
After one year your card will expire and, if there are no fines, it can be instantly updated at the library.
www.penfieldlibrary.org /libcrdserv.htm   (408 words)

  
 The Five Orange Pips - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
This five disk DVD set includes 13 Sherlock Holmes episodes with Jeremy Brett portraying Sherlock Holmes.
Produced by Britain's Granada Television this is for many the classic TV version of Sherlock Holmes.
Its outrages were usually preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic but generally recognised shape—a sprig of oak-leaves in some parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others.
www.sepo.net /books/sherlock-holmes/the-five-orange-pips   (6292 words)

  
 Short Stories: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Charles McCarthy is shot in a wood near Boscombe Pool, all (circumstantial) evidence appears to point at his son.
Holmes investigates a case that begins when a young man finds his uncle terrified by five orange pips he receives in the mail.
Holmes goes in search of a missing man, last seen, by his wife, looking agitated in the second floor window above a seedy opium den.
www.eastoftheweb.com /short-stories/Collections/AdveSher.shtml   (283 words)

  
 Series List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Case of the Amateur Mendicants (sa) The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Mallard 1989; The Amateur Mendicant Society, broadcast April 2, 1945, based on an incident in The Five Orange Pips.
The Case of the Camberwell Poisoners (sa) The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Mallard 1989; The Camberwell Poisoners, broadcast February 18, 1946, based on an incident in The Five Orange Pips.
The Case of the Demon Barber (sa) The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Mallard 1989; The Demon Barber, broadcast January 28, 1946, based on an incident in The Yellow Face.
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 Short Stories: The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle
Short Stories: The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle
There is nothing more to be said or to be done to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellow-men."
By the time that their sailing-ship reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder."
www.eastoftheweb.com /short-stories/UBooks/FiveOran.shtml   (6185 words)

  
 The Five Orange Pips - Sherlock Holmes
Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and John Swain, of
Its outrages were usually preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic but generally recognized shape---a sprig of oak-leaves in some parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others.
It ran, if I remember right, 'sent the pips to A, B, and C'---that is, sent the society's warning to them.
sherlock.mindcop.net /adventures/five_orange_pips.html   (6161 words)

  
 CISC370-011 -- demo code from class #11
Every half second, the main thread displays the number of bytes that have been processed by each worker thread.
Below is a sample run of the program as it transforms the text of the Sherlock Holmes story, "The Five Orange Pips", from file
D:\CIS370\Web\demo\class11>head pips.txt ADVENTURE V. When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave.
www.eecis.udel.edu /~leipold/03f/demo/class11/demo11.html   (277 words)

  
 05 Master Document, Prefaces & Table of Contents [Combined]
John Waldeck of Canton, Ohio, and five other members of the society will be in London during June 28-July 9 to mark the centenary year of the meeting between Holmes and Watson.
Thomas L. Harman, assistant professor of computer technology and First Pip (president) of The John Openshaw Society, discusses the founding and activities of this new scion.
A verse in five stanzas relating how the society was founded.
special.lib.umn.edu /rare/ush/07B2.html   (10320 words)

  
 Sherlock Holmes - The Five Orange Pips Page 07   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sherlock Holmes - The Five Orange Pips Page 07
We have not yet grasped the results which the reason alone can attain to.
Free Books in the public domain from the Classic Literature Library ©
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