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Duke Classics
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Duke Classics
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English
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"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of twelve short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend Dr. John Watson. The stories were originally published between 1891 and 1892 and later compiled into a book. In each tale, Holmes uses his keen powers of observation, deductive reasoning, and logical analysis to solve a variety of perplexing cases. The mysteries range...
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Duke Classics
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English
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Dr. Watson is called to 221b Baker Street to check on Holmes, who is apparently dying of a rare Asian disease contracted while he was on a case. Watson is shocked, having heard nothing about his friend's illness. Mrs. Hudson says that he has neither eaten nor drunk anything in three days. Upon arriving, Watson finds Holmes in his bed looking very ill and gaunt indeed, and Holmes proceeds to make several odd demands of Watson. He is not to come near...
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Duke Classics
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English
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The Adventure of the Devil's Foot is a short Sherlock Holmes detective story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was published in 1910 and set in 1897 taking place in Cornwall where Sherlock Holmes is taking a holiday because he has been pushing himself too hard. The story begins with Watson and Holmes relaxing in Cornwall when they are approached by the local Vicar and the man living with him asking for help. Watson is not happy about the intrusion...
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Duke Classics
Language
English
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A Prank or a Crime of Passion? Sherlock Holmes is up to something. He doesn't believe Inspector Lestrade's story that Miss Susan Cushing is a victim of a prank. She received a parcel with two human ears packed in a coarse salt. And what about the precarious cuts? Or the writing and the spelling correction from the parcel? Doesn't these clues suggest something more than a prank made by a bunch of medical students?
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Duke Classics
Language
English
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Holmes is visited by a perturbed proper English gentleman, John Scott Eccles, who wishes to discuss something "grotesque". No sooner has he arrived at 221B Baker Street than Inspector Gregson also shows up, along with Inspector Baynes of the Surrey Constabulary. They wish a statement from Eccles about the murder near Esher last night. A note in the dead man's pocket indicates that Eccles said that he would be at the victim's house that night. Eccles...
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Spotify Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Holmes encounters one of his most formidable adversaries and must unlock the mystery of the demonic hound, the curse of the Baskerville family. Published in The Strand magazine in episodes between August 1901 and April 1902, The Hound of the Baskervilles became one of the most popular of all the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and received a medical degree from the University of...
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and received a medical degree from the University of...
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Wildside Press LLC
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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The Sea-Story Megapack presents 30 classic nautical tales, plus a bonus poem, ranging from pure adventure to science fiction, from the depths of the ocean to exotic ports of call. Included are:
THE SHIP THAT SAW A GHOST, by Frank Norris
GHOST LANTERNS, by Alan B. LeMay
THE DANGER FROM THE DEEP, by Ralph Milne Farley
THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF A CHIEF MATE, by W. Clark Russell
THE DERELICT, by H. M. Tomlinson
THE TEMPLE, by
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