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Contents Character............................................................4 Vocabulary.........................................................11

The Adventure Of The Speackled Band Chapter One.................................................24 Chapter Two................................................25 The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle Chapter One..................................................28 Chapter Two................................................30 A Scandal In Bohemia Chapter One.................................................32 Chapter Two................................................34

Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes is one of the greatest and most famous detectives in the world. He can figure out many things about people just by looking at a piece of their clothing. His powers of observation and deduction are in credible and he uses them well to solve mysteries that seem unsolvable. He offers his skills for good people in trouble. This has made him famous.

Dr. Watson Dr. Watson is Holmes’ oldest friend. He is not as smart as Holmes, and usually cannot up to. However,Holmes likes to have Dr.Watson around, perhaps as a “sounding board” for his theories. Watson is a faithful friend and he does provide support to Holmes.

Helen Stoner Helen Stoner is a woman around the age of thirty who comes unannounced to Holmes's apartment early one morning in April. She is living with her stepfather near Surrey, having lost her mother and her twin sister. Her stepfather, Dr. Roylott, is a man of violent temper, and she lives in fear of him, suspecting that he is in some way responsible for her twin sister's death.

James Ryder James Ryder was an attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan in London. He stole the Blue Carbuncle, a precious jewel, room of its owner, the Countess of Morcar, with the help of her maid Catherine Cusack. The pair tried to frame John Horner for the theft, but Sherlock Holmes discovered the truth. However, because Holmes judged Ryder was unlikely to become a career criminal, and because it was Christmas, Holmes let Ryder go free. Afterwards, Ryder fled to continental Europe.

The King of Bohemia He is currently engaged to the Princess of Scandinavia, but reveals to Holmes and Watson that years ago, while in Warsaw, he had a relationship with Irene Adler, an opera. Irene has a number of letters and photos that would serve as proof of this indiscretion, and that information would likely jeopardize the King’s current engagement. He will do anything to obtain and destroy this evidence, but Irene refuses to hand it over, and she has outsmarted the King’s men more than once.

Daybreak (n.) รุ่งสาง As soon as daybreak came, I quicky dressed and came here.

Dangerous (Adj.) อันตราย It is the most dangerous snake in india.

Magnifying glass (N.) แว่นขยาย I also noticed a magnifying glass on the chair.

Picture (N.) รูปภาพ What is she going to do with the picture.

Hurt (V.) เจ็บ He’s not dead, just hurt.

overcoat (N.) เสื้อคลุม We put our overcoats and wrapped up our throats because it very cold outside.

Pipe (N.) กล้องยาสูบ He was lying on his sofa, smoking his pipe.

Gate (N.) ประตูรวั้ We could hear him yelling at the boy who opened the gate.

inn (N.) โรงแรม I got the goose at the alpha inn.

cart (N.) รถลาก We had to hire a horse and cart to get to Stoke moran.

The Adventure Of The Speackled Band • Chapter One Two years ago, Helen tells Holmes and Watson, her sister got engaged. Shortly thereafter, Julia told Helen that she began to hear a low whistling sound in the middle of the night. This went on for some time, until, shortly before Julia’s wedding date, Helen heard a scream coming from her sister’s bedroom. Helen ran over to see what happened and Julia, in a state of shock, fell to the ground in convulsions. Julia said, “It was the band! The speckled band!” and died. The sisters were in the habit of locking their doors and shuttering their windows Roylott keeps a wild cheetah and baboon around the property as pets so Julia’s death fully baffles Helen. By the time she comes to visit Holmes and Watson, Helen herself has become engaged. Soon after she makes the announcement, renovations begin on the exterior wall next to her bedroom, so Helen is forced to move into her sister’s former room, next door to Roylott. Not long after this, Helen begins to hear the same low whistling sound that Julia had described to her. Holmes and Watson then make plans to meet her at the Stoke Moran Manor later that day so they can begin investigating the mysterious incidents

• CHAPTER TWO Holmes and Watson journey out to Surrey later that afternoon. Meeting up with Helen, the detectives first inspect the rooms from the outside, determining that the shutters are essentially impenetrable, and then the inside, where there are a number of telling clues. Holmes examines every surface of Julia’s former room and notices that the bed is bolted to the floor, that a ventilator hole leads into Roylott’s bedroom next door, and that the bell-pull is fake (it’s merely a rope hanging onto a hook in the ceiling). They then inspect Roylott’s room, where Holmes notices a safe with a saucer of milk sitting on top of it and a leash tied and looped like a whipcord hanging from the bed. The three hatch a plan for the evening. Holmes and Watson will take a room on the second floor of the inn across the lane from the manor. Helen will tell her stepfather that she will be confining herself to her room due a headache. When she hears that Roylott has gone to bed, she will undo the shutters in Julia’s former room, light a candle and blow it out to indicating that all is quiet in the house, and then retreat into her former room for the night. Holmes and Watson then go back to the inn and wait for Helen’s signal. At eleven, they see the light and head to the manor.

In Julia’s former room, Holmes instructs Watson to sit silently in the dark and to not fall asleep. They quietly wait until, hours later, they see a light coming from the ventilator hole and smell burning oil, telling them that Roylott is stirring about next door. A few moments later, they hear a long hissing sound come into their room. Suddenly, Holmes gets up and begins to furiously beat at the hanging bell-pull rope with his cane. Right when they light a lantern in their room, the glare makes it so that Watson can’t tell what Holmes had seen, only that the detective’s face had paled and a taken on a look of terror. They then hear the expected low whistling and, shortly after, a horribly loud scream coming from Roylott’s room.

Once the shrieking fades, they investigate Roylott’s room and see the doctor sitting on a chair with a snake curled tightly around his head. Holmes immediately remarks on the speckled bands around the snake’s skin and identifies it as a swamp adder, “the deadliest snake in India.” Roylott has died quickly from the snake’s lethal bite. The story closes with Holmes telling Watson what he took away from the investigation, namely how important it is to have sufficient data, noting the confusing double meaning of the word “band,” which initially threw him off. Only by examining the physical clues directly in front of him—the bell-pull, the bolted bed and the ventilator hole—could he accurately deduce the method of the crime. Though he knows he is at least partly responsible for Roylott’s death, Holmes tells Watson, the guilt of this evil man dying will not weigh on him very heavily.

The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle • Chapter One Dr Watson calls upon Sherlock Holmes in order to wish him a Merry Christmas and finds his friend making an intensive study of a shabby looking hat. Holmes tells Watson that a few nights ago a commissionaire named Peterson had witnessed a gang of roughs assail a drunken man in the street. Peterson rushed forward to help the man but everyone in the group ran off when they saw Peterson’s official uniform. The victim of the attack had dropped his hat and a goose when he ran. Peterson brought the items to Holmes who suggested that Peterson should take the goose home to eat whilst he himself retained the hat that was of the poor old man. Holmes talks Watson through a series of deductions about the hat’s owner. Holmes deduces the owner of the hat through many assumptions. He even deduces that the owner was once a rich man. Suddenly, Peterson bursts into the room and shows Holmes a precious stone which his wife found in the crop of the goose.

Holmes instantly recognises the jewel as the Countess of Morcar’s blue carbuncle which had been stolen from her rooms at the Hotel Cosmopolitan five days previously. A man named John Horner has been arrested on suspicion of the theft as he performed a small job in the dressing room on the day of the crime. The alarm was given by the upperattendant, James Ryder. Holmes places advertisements in the papers about the hat and consequently receives a visit from Mr.Henry Baker who hopes to regain his hat and goose. Holmes has a replacement bird ready for Mr.Baker who shows no sign of wishing to recover the original goose. Realising that Mr.Baker can know nothing of the jewel theft Holmes asks where the original bird came from. Mr.Baker informs Holmes that he gotten his goose from the Alpha Inn



Chapter Two

Holmes and Watson make their way to the Alpha Inn and are told that the geese sold to customers of the inn came from

Mr.Breckinridge of Covent Garden. Holmes and Watson dutifully head to Covent Garden but when Holmes enquires after the geese which were sold to the Alpha Inn Breckinridge becomes angry and refuses to answer any questions. The salesman indicates that Holmes is not the first person to be asking about the geese and that he is heartily tired of being pestered. Holmes notices that Mr.Breckinridge has a copy of The Sporting Times sticking out of his pocket and so he draws the man into a bet over whether the geese sold to the Alpha were town or country bred. In order to prove Holmes wrong Breckinridge shows him the ledger where Holmes notes the address of the supplier for the geese sold, Mrs.Oakshott. As Holmes and Watson begin to debate whether to go and see Mrs.Oakshott immediately or the next day they overhear some commotion at Breckinridge’s stall. A little nervous man is making what sounds like a repeat enquiry about some geese and Breckinridge steadfastly refuses to answer.

Holmes and Watson overtake the little man as he flees from Breckinridge. Holmes indicates that they can help him to trace the goose he is interested in and upon hearing this the man agrees to come and discuss matters at Baker Street. At first he gives them a false name but Holmes quickly deduces that its a lie. The man is James Ryder, the Hotel Cosmopolitan attendant. Once back at Baker Street Holmes quickly accuses Ryder of stealing the jewel and framing Horner. Ryder admits his guilt but begs Holmes to spare him from prison and disgrace. Ryder explains that he had planned the theft with the help of the Countess' maid, Catherine Cusack. After the arrest of Horner he felt it would be best to hide the stone somewhere away from the hotel. He went to the house of his sister, Mrs Oakshott, in order to think things over.

!p Ryder resolved to take the stone to a friend in Kilburn who could start the process of selling the valuable jewel. With his mind made up Ryder had only to think of a way to avoid losing the stone as a result of a search as he made his way to Kilburn. Ryder’s sister had promised him one of her geese for a Christmas present and he hit upon the idea of forcefeeding the stone to a goose and then carrying it away with him.

A Scandal In Bohemia • Chapter One Watson prefaces his narrative with an explanation of Holme’s relationship with Irene. Holmes is intelligent and unetional. Although he never love her, he never forget her but rather about setting the stage for this monumental matching of wits between Holmes and Irene.

The relation between Holmes and Watson is also an essential aspect of all of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Watson notes both Holmes’s dedication to detective work and his cocaine addiction, painting Holmes as a reclusive obsessive

Holmes takes on the role of the teacher and mentor in this scene, guiding Watson through his process of deduction, illustrating how nearly everything they observe could contain a valuable cule. The visitor come to Holmes for help with a case, yet he somehow believes that he can deceive the brilliant detective by wearing a mask and offering a false name. Holmes quickly unmasks him as the king of Bohemia, Holmes is unimpressed with him, even as he acknowledges the king’s royal status The case revolves around the king’s past indiscretion and its impact on his future marriage plans, but more importantly, the case introduces Holmes to the most important woman in his life, Irene Adler. Yet she is also portrayed from the beginning as formidable, having resisted and fooled the king’s men up to this point



Chapter Two

Holmes begins the adventure in disguise, in order to ger as close as possible to Irene and collect data for the case. The fact that Watson is fooled by Holmes’s disguise shows the detective’s extraordinally skill at transforming himself into another person. This scene also demonstrates the unorthodox methods Holmes uses in his cases.

While still in information gathering mode, Holmes is swept up into the action, becoming part of Irene and Godfrey haven’t even brought a friend along to witness the ceremony The wedding of Irene and Godfrey presents a strong contrast to what one would imagine a royal wedding might be like. This ceremony is sparse and rushed. Irene’s marriage complicates the notion that she is planning to sabotage the King’s relationship out of jealousy. Energized from his earlier adventure, Holmes form a new plan that is even more unorthordox, dangerous and theatrical Once again, Holme’s disguise is an opportunity for him to transform himself and demonstrate his extraordinary cunning.

Holmes and Watson spend some time trying to get into Irene’s mind and understand her thinking, he will think like Irene in order to discover the hiding place. This staged scene is the climax of the adventure, giving Holmes a grand stage for his theatrical work. His Choice of costume helps to establish him as beyond suspicion and it is a testament to Holme’s transformation that Irene doesn’t recognize him as the drunken groomsman who witnessed her wedding earlier that day. Holmes openly discusses his plans for the next day with Watson as they walk though London, natively presuming the same kind of anonymity that the King of Bohemia felt the beginning of the story. Sherlock Holmes has been outwitted by a woman, and Irene’s letter details how she did it. It also portrays Irene as a thoughtful and intelligent woman who has chosen the love of a good man over her feelings of jealousy and abandonment. She proves the quality of her character so much that the King takes her word that she will not blackmail him with the photo, which she is keeping. The King’s satisfaction with this outcome, and the strange form of payment---a photo of Irene---highlights the very minor role that justice played in this game of cunning and deception

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