[FUN WITH READING 2018-20230B] Greedy, Love and the Death Code

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TITLE OF THE BOOK: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

NAME OF THE AUTHOR: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2008

ISBN: 978-0-19-479071-0

Greedy, Love and the Death Code

　　This book talks about three classical stories of Sherlock Holmes, but in Watson’s viewpoint. The first story is about a strange case.

　　One day, a young woman found Holmes and asked for help. Because she thought her life was in danger, just like her sister two years ago. After listening to her story, Holmes went to the woman’s room at night and acted the part of the woman. Finally, the truth was that the woman’s father put snake in her sister’s room and killed her sister , and now he wanted to do it again. The second story is about Holmes’ love story. In the beginning, the king of Bohemia came and asked for help, and he said he needed to take back the photo from Irene Adler. Holmes used his witness to solve the problem. The third story is about a strange killer’s organization "KKK." In the beginning of the story, a man received a letter, and he died soon. However the man didn’t escape death from the killer, but Holmes found the truth of this case.

　　Sherlock Holmes was the most famous detective in the world, and he could use few details to find out what the truth was. There was no one who could escape from his eyes and his brain.