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THE GREAT DETECTIVE SHERLOCK HOLMES #13 The Silent Mother
The last thing that Harry Stowe's mother uttered to him on her deathbed was that he was actually adopted from a children 's shelter when he was three years old and that his birth mother's name was Sophia. Upon this revelation , Stowe commissioned Holmes and Watson to search for his bi巾mother. While looking for clues, Holmes and Watson discovered that the director of the children's shelter was killed on the same day that Stowe was given away for adoption. Furthermore, it turned out that the police had suspected the killer to be a kitchen maid at the shelter named Sophia!
However, the murder was never solved all these years. The suspect had disappeared and the case had become a cold case Holmes' investigation led him to a retired police officer named Daniel who was responsible for the case at that time. 80th Holmes and Watson could sense something odd when they met with Daniel. As they dug deeper into the investigation , they uncovered a heart-rending tragedy that had been hiding behind the cold case for over four decades.
看《大偵探福爾摩斯》英文版,增強你的英文能力!
THE GREAT DETECTIVE SHERLOCK HOLMES #13 The Silent Mother
本書是將《大偵探福爾摩斯 – 沉默的母親》翻譯成英文的新版本。
在母親病重垂危時,哈里.史托才從她的口中得悉自己在一間慈善寄養院出生,3歲時被領養,而親生母親則另有其人,名叫蘇菲婭。
福爾摩斯和華生應邀協助尋母,發現史托被領養的當天,寄養院的院長被殺,警方更懷疑兇手是一個女廚工,而她的名字也叫蘇菲婭! 此案後來不了了之,成為一宗多年來都沒破的懸案,疑犯亦失去了蹤影。
追查下,福爾摩斯和華生找到了當年負責此案的退休警探丹尼爾,在他的身上,兩人嗅到了一股不尋常的氣味,更發現懸案背後,竟隱藏着一個令人聞之動容的悲慘故事。
書中特別標明較深的英文生字,以加深讀者的印象。
同時底部附有生字的中文解釋,令讀者讀得更清楚明白!
THE GREAT DETECTIVE SHERLOCK HOLMES #13 The Silent Mother
The last thing that Harry Stowe's mother uttered to him on her deathbed was that he was actually adopted from a children 's shelter when he was three years old and that his birth mother's name was Sophia. Upon this revelation , Stowe commissioned Holmes and Watson to search for his bi巾mother. While looking for clues, Holmes and Watson discovered that the director of the children's shelter was killed on the same day that Stowe was given away for adoption. Furthermore, it turned out that the police had suspected the killer to be a kitchen maid at the shelter named Sophia!
However, the murder was never solved all these years. The suspect had disappeared and the case had become a cold case Holmes' investigation led him to a retired police officer named Daniel who was responsible for the case at that time. 80th Holmes and Watson could sense something odd when they met with Daniel. As they dug deeper into the investigation , they uncovered a heart-rending tragedy that had been hiding behind the cold case for over four decades.
看《大偵探福爾摩斯》英文版,增強你的英文能力!
THE GREAT DETECTIVE SHERLOCK HOLMES #13 The Silent Mother
本書是將《大偵探福爾摩斯 – 沉默的母親》翻譯成英文的新版本。
在母親病重垂危時,哈里.史托才從她的口中得悉自己在一間慈善寄養院出生,3歲時被領養,而親生母親則另有其人,名叫蘇菲婭。
福爾摩斯和華生應邀協助尋母,發現史托被領養的當天,寄養院的院長被殺,警方更懷疑兇手是一個女廚工,而她的名字也叫蘇菲婭! 此案後來不了了之,成為一宗多年來都沒破的懸案,疑犯亦失去了蹤影。
追查下,福爾摩斯和華生找到了當年負責此案的退休警探丹尼爾,在他的身上,兩人嗅到了一股不尋常的氣味,更發現懸案背後,竟隱藏着一個令人聞之動容的悲慘故事。
書中特別標明較深的英文生字,以加深讀者的印象。
同時底部附有生字的中文解釋,令讀者讀得更清楚明白!