The King of Bohemia needs to find an incriminating photograph. A young woman dies mysteriously in her bed. Two men receive similar letters shortly before their sudden deaths. The brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes demonstrates his amazing powers of observation and deduction in these three short stories
'Help me,' says Helen Stoner. 'My sister died, and now I am going to die too.' Sherlock Holmes and Or Watson must answer the question of how Julia Stoner died, two years ago. If they cannot, then Helen Stoner will die too. But her house is very strange -and her stepfather, Or Grimesby Roylott, is very angry and does not want Holmes there. Who killed Julia, and how? And why did she say 'the speckled band!' before she died?
Sherlock Holmes: Holmes and the RipperThe grisly serial killings of prostitutes and vulnerable women in Victorian Whitechapel, dubbed by the popular press as the work of ‘Jack the Ripper’ are the talk of London, and from deep within the smog-ridden slums, yet another piercing shriek is heard.Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H. Watson are drawn into one of the darkest plots ever to shake the foundations of England. There are freemasons, conspiracies and plots at the highest level of the establishment.But for Holmes, there is a uniquely personal element to this new and terrifying case…
'Come quickly, Dr Watson', says Mrs Hudson. 'Sherlock Holmes is dying!' Sherlock Holmes was trying to solve a murder. But now he has a terrible illness, and he is not his normal self. Can his friend Watson help him? Can the strange Mr Culverton Smith help him? Or will Sherlock Holmes die?
Three Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Penguin Readers 4
Sherlock Holmes is a great detective. There are few cases that he cannot solve. In these three stories we meet a young woman who is terrified of a mysterious ‘speckled band’, a family who think that five orange pips are a sign of death, and a banker who believes that his son is a thief. But are things really as they seem?
