by Arthur Conan Doyle · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194609050
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«Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band» is the graded mystery reader by Arthur Conan Doyle, published by OUP Oxford in paperback (56 pages, in English).
Helen Stoner asks Sherlock Holmes for help because she fears dying like her sister Julia, who died two years earlier in strange circumstances after saying «the speckled band». Holmes and Watson investigate the family mansion, where they live with the violent stepfather, Dr Grimesby Roylott, and try to discover the truth before Helen meets the same fate.
It belongs to the Oxford Dominoes series, Starter level, in its 2nd edition published in July 2015.
For students of English as a foreign language, especially in the last years of primary and first years of secondary school, at A2 level.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, which are milestones in crime fiction, and for his first work featuring Professor Challenger, The Lost World (1912), which gave its name to a subgenre of speculative fiction. He was a prolific writer who produced over 200 stories and articles, four volumes of poetry, and a number of works for the stage. He was knighted by King Edward VII in the 1902 Coronation Honours.
