Six of the best-known Sherlock Holmes stories retold in modern English for students of English as a foreign / second language and younger readers. Vocabulary based on the 2000 most common words in the British National Corpus. *A Scandal in Bohemia * The Blue Carbuncle * Silver Blaze * The Sp
A Most Diabolical Plot: Six Compelling Sherlock Holmes Stories
โ Scribed by Tim Symonds
- Book ID
- 111096858
- Publisher
- Andrews UK
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 730 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781787054059
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In the year 1903 - the exact moment is now lost to history - Sherlock Holmes proclaimed to the world he was quitting England's Capital to go into retirement on a small, wind-swept farm in the Sussex South Downs. His shocked comrade-in-arms Dr. John H. Watson was later to write, 'The decision took me utterly by surprise. I thought I had become an institution around Holmes, like his Stradivarius, or the old, oily black clay pipe and his index books.' Reluctantly Watson wrote up three recent cases yet unpublished and returned to his medical practice. Holmes retirement didn't last long. Once more his faithful Amanuensis Watson took up his pen - and his Army Service revolver. The result was three more of the most intriguing cases ever undertaken by the famous pair. All six adventures have now been brought together in this special edition. A Most Diabolical Plot. 'Not 'til the day the bugle blows for me shall I forget the most diabolical attempt ever made on my friend Sherlock Holmes's ...
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