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Five Orange Pips
Reviewed by Artur Shamyan, 8a

I read one of the most popular books in the genre of detective under the title The Stories about Sherlock Holmes. The book was written by Arthur Conan Doyle, a famous English writer.

The book consists of separate stories. There are different adventures in each story. Now I want to tell about the story under title The Five Orange Pips.

The action takes place in the end of September 1887. The scene is laid in London. The main character is John Openshaw. He is from Horsham. He came to Sherlock Holmes for advice and help. The adventures started when John had told about his family.

He told about his uncle Elias. Elias went to live in America and became a planter in Florida. He didn't like black Americans, but during the Civil War he fought against the men from the North, with those from the south. About 1869 or 1870 he came back to England with a lot of money and bought a house near Horsham. There was one room in the house, which was always locked; there was nothing but old boxes. When John was 12, he came to live with him. One day Elias got a letter from Pondicherry in India. When he opened the letter out there jumped 5 dried orange pips. It was written "K.K.K." on the envelope. "Oh my God, my God, they have found me!" said Elias. One night Elias was found dead in the lake. The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. He died 7 weeks later. Then John lived with his father in Elias's house. One day his father got a letter from Dundee, Scotland. There were 5 orange pips, and on the envelope it was written "K.K.K." It also told him to leave the papers in the garden. He didn't understand. 5 days later John's father died.

Over time John got the letter from London with the same pips and 3 Ks on the envelope. It was the organization Ku-klux-klan. It started in the Southern States after the Civil War. They didn't want black Americans to have the same rights as white Americans. And they killed anyone who didn't agree with them. They sent orange pips as a warning. The fact is that Elias Openshaw brought all their papers with him in the box, which was in the locked room, so the organization couldn't go on. The next morning Holmes saw the news; there it was told that last night police found the body of John Openshaw in the river. He was dead. Holmes promised he would find them.

Later he found the names of Openshaw's enemies. They were on the ship "Lone Star". He sent them the letter with 5 orange pips. Holmes thought, that the "Lone Star" would arrive in Georgia and there police would get them. But the storm was worse than ever, so the "Lone Star" never arrived, and they never got the 5 orange pips. "But, in the end, death came to them".

I advise you to read this book!!!