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    Sherlock Holmes in Simple English: The Man with the Twisted Lip
    Sherlock Holmes in Simple English: The Man with the Twisted Lip
    Sherlock Holmes in Simple English: The Man with the Twisted Lip
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    Sherlock Holmes in Simple English: The Man with the Twisted Lip

    By A L Stringer and Arthur Conan Doyle

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    Just before a wealthy businessman disappears, his wife sees his face in an upper floor window above an opium den. The only suspect is a beggar who lives in the room. Holmes has to stay up all night smoking his pipe before he finds the answer to the mystery.

    This book is a graded reader. The story has been retold in modern English for students of English as a foreign / second language at intermediate level (CEFR B1) and younger native speakers.

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    • Comprehension and vocabulary tasks
    • Summary of the story
    • Endnotes for difficult words, place names and cultural references
    • Word list at the end of the book
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA L Stringer
    Release dateMay 9, 2021
    ISBN9791220801850
    Sherlock Holmes in Simple English: The Man with the Twisted Lip

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      Sherlock Holmes in Simple English - A L Stringer

      About graded readers

      Graded readers help language learners improve their skills through reading for pleasure. They use grammar and vocabulary that are appropriate for learners at different levels.

      Graded readers can help learners to

      This graded reader is suitable for non-native learners of English at intermediate level (CEFR B1) and younger native speakers (US 6th grade). Stories at this level keep close to the original but are retold in modern English using high-frequency words. Less common words, place names, and points of cultural and historical interest are explained in the endnotes.

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      The Man with the Twisted Lip

      Just before a wealthy businessman disappears, his wife sees his face in an upper floor window, above an opium den. The only suspect is a beggar who lives in the room.

      Holmes smokes his pipe all night before finding the answer to the mystery.

      Sherlock Holmes

      Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by the British author and former doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930). He lives in a flat in Baker Street, London with his friend Dr Watson. He works because he enjoys solving mysteries, rather than for money, and only investigates cases that he thinks are interesting. He is best known for his powers of logical reasoning, his ability to use disguises, and his forensic skills (he is the author of a book on different types of cigar ash). Conan Doyle once explained that Holmes was based on real doctors he had known when he was a medical student in the late 1870s.

      Holmes is interesting because his personality has many contradictions. He is methodical in his work but untidy in his private life: he keeps his tobacco in the end of a slipper and rarely answers his letters. He is a man of science but also a heavy smoker. He is hard working when he is on a case, but when he has nothing to do, he is bored and lazy. He is an expert in certain fields related to his detective work, but completely ignorant about many other things. He once claimed that he didn’t know the Earth revolved around the Sun because it wasn’t relevant to his work. His interests are mostly intellectual, but he also plays the violin and is an expert at boxing and sword fighting.

      Holmes is a loner and has no time for family, social life or romantic relationships. The only woman he admires is Irene Adler, and that is because she manages to outwit him; however, he is always charming to his female clients. As a person, he often seems unemotional and cold, ‘a thinking machine’, but he gets excited when he is in the middle of an investigation and he likes to show off his skills. He is particularly happy when he

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