You are just about to finish your course. Summer is around the corner, Why don’t you read something?
My suggestion is “A Scandal in Bohemia”, which illustrates perfectly how a detective’s story can be exciting and amazing without any violence.
Why “A Scandal in Bohemia”?
“A Scandal in Bohemia”was the first of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 56 Sherlock Holmes short [...]
June 16, 2008
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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is the creator of the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, protagonist of the famous serie of histories that began with ‘A Study in Scarlet’ (1887). But the Scottish writer was also the author of scientific fiction stories and historic romances as well as a master in short stories.
Cover of the first edition [...]
May 21, 2007
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Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes, who is the best-known detective in literature and the embodiment of sharp reasoning. Doyle himself was not a good example of rational personality: he believed in fairies and was interested in occultism. Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into more than fifty [...]
May 6, 2007
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