The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Penguin Readers - Level 3
In 1891, the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, disappeared in Switzerland while working on a dangerous case. Everyone thought that he was dead. But three years later, he returned to England. Holmes and his friend, Dr Watson, had many more adventures together. Three of his most interesting cases are in this book.
Тайна Боскомской долины Set in 1888, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called down to Boscombe Valley (a fictitious place in Herefordshire) to investigate the death of Mr. Charles McCarthy. Lestrade, a detective from Scotland Yard whose meagre abilities are often upstaged by Holmes's brilliant deductions, has concluded without much ado that it is a murder, and that McCarthy's son James is the killer. James was seen by one witness following his father to the nearby pond, and another, a young girl, saw the two remonstrating with each other by the pond.
It was late fall when Sherlock Holmes received one of the most interesting, and somewhat laughable, notes in his career as a detective. It was from the lawyers Morrison, Morrison, and Dodd and was a very unusual referral of a client who had a problem with vampires.
A Study in Scarlet was the first Sherlock Holmes book written by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887 when Conan Doyle was only 27 years of age. This is a classic detective mystery novel where Dr. John H. Watson meets the greatest detective Sherlock Holmes and together they solve a case of murder.
It was no novelty for Sherlock Holmes to track down a murderer and bring him to justice. But the astute detective encountered one of his most challenging and baffling cases when he discovered the object of his case to be a ferocious hound - the hound of the Baskervilles. A walking-stick was Holmes' first introduction to the case ...