The Terror of Blue John Gap is a short story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in Strand Magazine in 1910.
The story comprises the adventures of a British doctor, recovering from tuberculosis, who goes to stay at a Derbyshire farm looking for rest and relaxation, becomes entrapped in a series of sinister events and is forced to uncover the mysteries surrounding "Blue John Gap" and the "Terror" that lurks within it.
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