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Classic Detective Stories

Charles Dickens, Clarence Rook, Gilbert Keith Chesterton and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes battles against a criminal organisation in Conan Doyle’s ‘The Five Orange Pips’; in Dickens’s ‘Hunted Down’ a murderer is brought to justice; in ‘The Stir Outside the Café Royal’ by Rook a woman tracks down her fiancé’s killer; and in Chesterton’s ‘The Oracle of the Dog’ Father Brown solves a murder case.

Theme

Investigation; intuition; genius; murder; justice; suspense
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About this book

CEFR Level B1+
Level Secondary
Language British English
Type Fiction (classic)
Genre Crime
Publisher Black Cat
Year 2008
Number of Pages 128
Number of activities 66
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