The Five Orange Pips one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the fifth of the 12 stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1891.
John Openshaw tells Holmes about two strange deaths in his family. In 1883 his uncle died two months after receiving a letter from India inscribed 'KKK' with five orange pips enclosed. In 1885 Openshaw's father received a similar letter and died three days afterward. Openshaw recently received a similar letter and asks for advice.
Holmes tells Openshaw to do as the letter asks and leave a diary page which Holmes deduces is connected to the Ku Klux Klan on the garden sundial. Openshaw is killed before he can do so but Holmes discovers the killers have been travelling on a sailing ship and sends a letter with five orange pips. The ship is lost at sea.
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