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Sherlock Holmes. La aventura de la banda moteada

Sherlock Holmes. La aventura de la banda moteada

MysteryMiddle Grade
Pages
80
Published
2013
Language
Spanish

Synopsis

This is an adapted, simplified edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," retold by Laura Salas Rodríguez for readers learning English or Spanish as a graded reader.

Helen Stoner comes to Sherlock Holmes in fear for her life. Her twin sister died under strange circumstances two years earlier, just before her own wedding, and now Helen faces the same forced engagement and the same unexplained sounds in the night at her stepfather's crumbling estate. Holmes and Watson travel to the house to investigate a case that turns on a locked door, a dummy bell-pull, and a ventilator that shouldn't exist.

As a graded-reader edition rather than the original text, it condenses and simplifies Doyle's language for language learners while keeping the core mystery intact.

Genres

Mystery Middle Grade Classics

Authors

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy an...

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Laura Salas Rodríguez

Meet Laura Salas Rodríguez, author of the well-liked novel, El anticuario. Her writing style is direct, making her stories easy to get into.

Characters

Sherlock HolmesProtagonist
Helen StonerSupporting
Dr. John H. WatsonSupporting
All characters in Sherlock Holmes. La aventura de la banda moteada