Lại 1 tập hay nữa của seri này, dù không có những đoạn hồi hộp dồn dập như 2 tập đầu nhưng vẫn hấp dẫn. Không đơn thuần chỉ là phá án, còn những bài học rất hay cho cả young adults. Chưa đọc Sherlock Holmes gốc nhưng tác giả viết dựa trên đó không chỉ là ăn theo, mà như là 1 người am hiểu sâu sắc...
Sherlock Holmes, just 13, is a misfit. His highborn mother is the daughter of an aristocratic family, his father a poor Jew. Their marriage flouts tradition, makes them social pariahs in the London of the 1860s; and son Sherlock bears the burden of their rebellion. Friendless, bullied at school, ...
That is especially true the next day. The pressure from Beatrice and Sigerson Bell and in a sense, Lestrade to be involved with the Spring Heeled Jack case, vanishes when he reaches Snowfields. So do Malefactor and his threats, and for the most part, the irresistible attractions of Irene Doyle. I...
But Sherlock pays little attention to the rush of rumbling omnibuses and sprite hansom cabs, the advertising signs, the desperate poor, or even the celebrated faces. His mind and his senses are riveted on what will take place outside the redbrick exterior of the Yard, and what he hopes to hear fr...
And so was Mermoz. In fact, he was sitting in his car—another battered old Citroën—completely naked. Or at least, he appeared to be. He was looking around to make sure no one was watching, and his hand was covering his face as he motioned to me with just a slight movement of his head. I reluctant...
And he also knows why he’s doing it. “You must go back, Sherlock,” said Irene not long after young Lestrade left the shop that morning. She had walked over and seated herself close to him. Until then, the two girls and the boy had been silent. “You need to fetch the hat. If you can, I am sure we ...
As usual, the boy is taking a long time to get himself ready He is standing in front of the cracked mirror in the shop, making sure every thread of his tattered clothes is in place, patting down his straight black hair over and over again. “A spot of trouble at the Palace of the People’s Pleasure...
He curls into a ball and presses himself against the stone wall, back from the stairs. The footsteps come closer, and then stop. Whoever is there is standing next to the bottom step, no more than twenty feet away. Holmes can hear that person breathing. It is labored, like someone winded merely fr...