Read The Return of Sherlock Holmes in Englishwith every sentence explained

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle was first published in 1905. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked intermediate and filed under mystery and crime and thriller and suspense.

The game is afoot once more.

Three years after the tragic struggle at the Reichenbach Falls, London, and a grieving Dr. John Watson, have accepted that the world's greatest consulting detective is dead. Then the inexplicable murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair baffles the police, and a familiar figure steps out of the fog. Sherlock Holmes has returned.

In these thirteen stories, Watson recounts the "inconceivable sequel" to his friend's disappearance and the cases that followed. From the tension of "The Adventure of the Empty House" to the strange stick figures of "The Dancing Men" and the ruthless blackmailer Charles Augustus Milverton, the legendary partners face a new generation of cunning criminals.

Brilliant, atmospheric and full of surprises, The Return of Sherlock Holmes marks the triumphant comeback of literature's most iconic detective. Some legends simply refuse to stay buried.

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.