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 [...]
One of the Holmes’s skills is cryptography. Cryptography is the science that studies how to decipher encoded messages as well as how to codify them. This is an activity as old as intelligence services. Most of the ciphers are build by mathematicians or people very skilled at mathematics.
Holmes is also a competent cryptanalyst. He relates [...]
Holmes and Watson on chairs by Sidney Paget
Taken from sherlockian.net
Here you are my reading recommendations. I want you to share my liking for Holmes’s Aventures. Not only it is good for your English but also for your logic, your common sense and scientific rigour.
In English
A Sherlock Holmes Collection. Burlington Books. It is based on a vocabulary of [...]
