A gripping historical suspense novel, set in the present day and Victorian London, centering upon the holy grail of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts - the author´s famed missing diary. In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes - adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines - anticipating the detective´s next adventure - only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero off.
This anthology collects together Arthur Conan Doyle`s finest Sherlock Holmes stories. The drug-addled, anti-social sleuth has become one of the most iconic characters in fiction and the tales collected here will entertain readers today just as much as when they were first published in the late 19th-century. Featuring such classic cases as `A Scandal in Bohemia` and `The Adventure of the Speckled Band`, this provides the perfect introduction to the world`s favourite detective.
As Holmes and the BSI begin their investigations into a gruesome murder, all at once the detectives find themselves in danger. When a personal associate of the master detective disappears, Ozzie, Wiggins and the gang know that they must uncover the truth-and quickly! Yet there is deception within their ranks. Who is a friend? Who is a traitor? Who can they trust?
Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series` combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. Penguin Readers are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from Easystarts with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of...
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Sherlock Holmes: A Drama in Four Acts" is a four-act play by William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, based on several stories about the world-famous detective.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07182-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
The GREEN APPLE series is composed of illustrated graded readers. The readers are graded into three levels - Starter, Step 1 and Step 2 - according to structural and lexical criteria, as well as by choice of subject matter. Features: • introduction about the author and his/her times • wide variety of interesting activities to promote understanding of the text, as well as all four language skills, lexis and sociocultural awareness and knowledge • activities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams • informative and fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the text • a recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activities •...
ISBN: 978885300-950-0
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This novel is an exciting fusion of a Sherlock Holmes mystery with the Ruritanian world of intrigue and skulduggery of Anthony Hope`s novel "The Prisoner of Zenda". Colonel Sapt of the Ruritanian Court journeys to England on a secret mission to save the country from anarchy. His mission is to engage the services of Rudolf Rassendyll once more to impersonate the King while the monarch recovers from a serious illness. But Rassendyll has mysteriously disappeared. In desperation, Sapt consults Sherlock Holmes who, with his faithful companion Watson, travels to the Kingdom of Ruritania in an effort to thwart the plans of the scheming Rupert of Hentzau in his bid for the throne. "Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair" is a wonderful blend of...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-548-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Two of Sherlock Holmes` most exciting, dangerous and challenging adventures are here in one volume. In "The Shadow of the Rat", a body is found floating in the river - a body that has been deliberately infected with the plague virus. Holmes and Watson find themselves seeking answers at The Bridge of Dreams, a club where a person`s darkest wish can be granted - for a price. Holmes falls under the control of a will stronger than his own which threatens the life of his closest friend Watson and leaves the government - indeed Britain itself - open to a deadly terror, the monstrous Giant Rat of Sumatra. In "The Tangled Skein", it is the autumn of 1888, and following the successful conclusion of the investigation into the affair of the Hound...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-652-2
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask. In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street - visitors who bring their troubles to the only man in the world who can help them. Данная серия представляет профессионально подобранную библиотеку для подростков и старшеклассников, куда включены адаптированные версии классической и...
ISBN: 978-0-19-479033-8
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: март 2011
Classic / British English Who killed Charles McCarthy at Boscombe Pool? And why? Detective Lestrade from Scotland Yard thinks it was McCarthy`s son, James. Things do not look good for James. But the famous English detective, Sherlock Holmes, sees things differently. His friend, Dr Watson, joins him and tells the story. This Pack contains a Book and MP3
ISBN: 978-1-4479-2582-8
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Sherlock Holmes is back on the case in this collection of sparkling short stories. Not only does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s brilliant detective investigate a fascinating series of crimes and misdemeanours in "The Memoirs", but we also learn about Holmes`s early days as a sleuth-hound and encounter the detective`s brilliant brother, Mycroft, who is a member of the Diogenes Club, one of the strangest establishments in London. And, of course, in "The Final Problem" Holmes comes face to face with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure.
No characters in English literature since those in the great Dickens gallery have taken so firm a hold upon the British and American imagination as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. They have indeed been elevated above the level of fiction and into the realm of mythology where the learned and the simple meet on an equal footing. The present selection draws the best stories from the several Sherlock Holmes volumes, including one of the longer books, "The Sign of Four", in its logical place among the other chosen tales: "Silver Blaze", "The Speckled Band", "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Naval Treaty", "The Blue Carbuncle", "The Greek Interpreter", "The Red-Headed League", "The Empty House", "The Missing Three-Quarter", and "His Last Bow"....
ISBN: 978-0-19-953697-9
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. Meet Dolores Price. She`s 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she`s determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.
ISBN: 978-0-671-02100-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011