Helbling Readers Red Series Level 2: The Boscombe Valley Mystery (with MP3)

　　“You mustn’t always believe obvious facts.”
　　「你不能總是相信表面的真相。」

　　Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are in the Boscombe Valley to investigate a murder. James McCarthy’s father is found dead by the Boscombe Valley Pool and many people think that young James is the murderer. But there is one person who believes that James McCarthy is innocent. 

　　夏洛克‧福爾摩斯和華生醫生到波士堪谷調查一樁謀殺案。詹姆士‧麥卡錫的父親被發現陳屍於波士堪湖岸邊，許多人認為年輕的詹姆士就是兇手。然而，卻有一個人堅信他是無辜的。

　　Can Sherlock Holmes help solve another mystery? Can he find the real murderer?
　　福爾摩斯有辦法解開又一個謎團嗎？他能否揪出真正的兇手？
 
　　適合程度：CEF A1, Cambridge KET, Headwords: 400, 全民英檢初級

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作者簡介

　　Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (亞瑟‧柯南道爾) was the inventor of Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most famous fictional detective. Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1859. He worked as a doctor but he had a passion for writing stories. In 1891 he decided to become a fulltime writer. 

　　His first story was a novel called A Study in Scarlet. He then wrote a series of short stories called The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which were published in instalments by The Strand Magazine. “The Boscombe Valley Mystery” was one of these short stories. Conan Doyle wrote 56 Sherlock Holmes stories in total. The public loved them, and wanted to read more about Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend, Dr Watson. Conan Doyle died in 1930. Sherlock Holmes’s fictional house in Baker Street is now a museum.