This quintessential detective series follows the brilliant deductive reasoning of a consulting detective in Victorian London. Alongside his loyal companion, Dr. Watson, he tackles perplexing mysteries that baffle the official police force. Delve into the fog-laden streets and shadowy corners of the city as logic and observation unravel complex crimes.
The titles in this series are mainly new editions of titles in the Longman Simplified English Series. They are suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate.
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. In Sherlock Holmes' first short story, he must face his most wily adversary yet--Irene Adler, "The Woman." Contracted by a Bohemian king to retrieve a series of compromising photographs ahead of the royal wedding, Holmes is caught up in disguises, bluffs, marriages, double bluffs, smoke alarms and heartbreak. To this supposedly heartless detective, Irene Adler is in many ways the first and only love of Holmes' we see in the whole canon, and for this reason the story is unmissable.
The Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein arrives a 221b in disguise, desperate for Holmes' help. He is engaged to marry a Scandinavian princess, but five years earlier, had a liaison with an American opera singer, Irene Adler. Adler has kept momentoes of their affair, which she is threatening to send to his intended bride