A collection of six adventures featuring the famous Victorian detective and his partner Dr Watson, this book provides children with a handy introduction to Conan Doyle's classic series. A short introduction sets the scene for readers, with some background information about how the stories came to be written and a brief publishing history.

 

This book is part of a book series called Scholastic Literacy Centres .

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Scholastic .

Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer, responsible for creating the literary character, Sherlock Holmes. Huw Thomas is headteacher of a Sheffield primary school. He is the series editor of Scholastic Literacy Centres and Writing Guides. His previous publications include Writing Guides: Scary Stories 7-9 and Pocket Guides: Understanding Texts.