English · Intermediate
Read The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes in Englishwith every sentence explained
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1927
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About the book
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle was first published in 1927. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked intermediate and filed under mystery and crime. It runs to about 82,000 words.
Twelve last cases. A vampire in Sussex. A killer on the beach. The final bow of the world's greatest detective.
Holmes and Watson return to Baker Street one last time, and Conan Doyle saves some of his strangest puzzles for the end. In The Illustrious Client, Holmes must stop a charming, ruthless baron from marrying an innocent young woman. In The Sussex Vampire, a father is told his wife was seen drinking their baby's blood. And in The Problem of Thor Bridge, a millionaire's wife lies dead on a bridge, with the governess as the obvious suspect.
There are surprises too: two stories are told by Holmes himself, including The Lion's Mane, a seaside mystery from his quiet retirement in Sussex.
The final Sherlock Holmes collection, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is darker and odder than the early adventures, and just as hard to put down.
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- First published
- 1927
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Mystery and Crime
- Length
- About 82,000 words
How it opens
"It can't hurt now," was Mr. Sherlock Holmes's comment when, for the tenth time in as many years, I asked his leave to reveal the following narrative. So it was that at last I obtained permission to put on record what was, in some ways, the supreme moment of my friend's career.
Reading The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday English feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
