Moonlight was streaming into the room, and it was bright with a vague
and shifty radiance. Looking straight at me and suspended, as it were,
in the air, for all beneath was in shadow, there hung a face... A
mysterious letter, a missing father, stolen jewels and a man found dead
in a locked room. Private detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful
companion Dr Watson have their work cut out in a case which takes them
through the suburbs of south London, back in time to the forts and
swamps of colonial India, and climaxes in a dramatic chase along the
river Thames. Arthur Conan Doyle's 1890 novel is the famous detective's
second case. This Collins Classroom Classics edition includes an
introduction and glossary to support students, written by an experienced
teacher.