Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Books of Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes and the dukes son
The piramid of Fear
The museum
Sherlock Holmes is a
famous character of
detective stories. He was
created by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle.
He is the
protagonist of a lot of
his novels.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22nd
May, 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied to
become a doctor, and he graduated, but
he had a secret passion for detective
stories. In 1890, he began to write
the Sherlock Holmes novels. Then, his
books became famous, but in 1906,
when his wife died, he went mad. He
died in 1930.
Arthur Conan Doyle was famous for his stories starring the
detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.
His most famous novels are:

Sherlock Holmes
A Study in Scarlet in 1887
Sherlock Holmes
The Sign of the Four in 1890
Sherlock Holmes
The Yellow Face in 1893
Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the
Baskervilles in
1902
Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure
of the Three Students in 1904

One day, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes had a visitor,
Dr. Huxtable, who asked him to help him to find one of his
students, Arthur who was missing. Dr. Huxtable was the
headmaster of a school for boys and Arthur was the Duke of
Holdernesses son, a very important and
rich person. The German teacher was
missing too. He took his bicycle with him.
Holmes and Watson went to the Dr
Hutables school where they met the
Duke and his secretary, Mr. James Wilder.
After considering a series of elements, Holmes said that the
boy and the teacher went across the moor, as confirmed by
the boys hat that one of the gardeners found in the moor.
The day after, Watson and Holmes walked across the moor to
look for the tracks of a bicycle. They only saw cow tracks. At
last they found some tracks of a bicycle but they were of a
different kind. Then, they found Mr. Heideggers corpse behind
a bush. Holmes and Watson visited the places around the
school too. So they went to the Green Man Inn. There, they
met Mr. Hayes, the owner.
Holmes visited the stables too, where he saw that
the horses had old shoes but new nails. Holmes
suspected Hayes to know everything about the
kidnapping. Then, they
saw Mr. Wilder coming
By bike at the Inn. He
looked scared. He left
His bicycle and went
away by horse. The
bikes tyre had the
same track they saw
in the moor, so they
suspected Mr. Wilder too.
Then Holmes went to the Dukes. He told him that Wilder was
his illegitimate son and that he had kidnapped Arthur because
he wanted to become the new Duke, while Mr. Hayes helped
him and killed the German teacher. The Duke knew that
Arthur was at the Green Man Inn while James was going to
Australia as he did not want to be arrested. Holmes asked the
Duke why Hayess horse made cow tracks in the mud and he
showed the detective a pair of old horse shoes which looked like
cows foot. Then Holmes took his cheque as a reward
for his work, also because he despised the
Duke for his behavior as he didnt help
Arthur when James told him that he had
kidnapped him.


The teenager John Watson, decided to become a doctor,
meets the young Sherlock Holmes, well regarded by teachers. A group of five
rich and successful British men are being targeted by a mysterious figure with
a cloak, which uses a blowgun to shoot small spines on the neck of his
victims. The plugs, wet with poison, push them to suicide. Holmes suspects
the incident and he, his girlfriend Elizabeth and Watson begin to
investigate. Clue after clue they come across different objects and a large
Egyptian pyramid. They go inside and discover a set to perform a
ceremony in which young girls are sacrificed. On the banks of the Thames,
the members of the cult hit and kill Elizabeth with the gun and then
engage in a fight with Holmes: Sherlock prevails over his opponents who
disappeared in the icy water, and can only give a last farewell to his
beloved that dies between his arms.
The Sherlock Holmes Museum in London is located
in Baker Street to number 234, next to 221B Baker Street,
the address chosen by Arthur Conan Doyle as
the residence of his famous detective. The museum is run by
the nonprofit International Sherlock Holmes Society. In
the past, between 1860 and 1936, the
Georgian house, currently occupied by the museum, was,
a small hotel.

A cura di:
Belli Greta
Borrelli Caterina
Bracaglia Anna Chiara
Iacovissi Giulia
Lancia Maria Chiara
Magliocchetti Michela