'He's an intelligent man. He was one rich and now is poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.'
One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees - and think - a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.
SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE BLUE DIAMOND
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Vocabulary:
- diamond: a very expensive stone that usually has no colour
- sitting-room: the room in a house where people sit and talk
- newspaper: people read about things that happen every day in this
- magnifying glass: when you look through this, small things are big
- crime: killing someone, or taking money from someone
- doorman: a man working at a hotel; he opens the front door for visitors
- bird: an animal that can fly; you can eat some birds
- goose (plural geese) a large, usually white bird; people sometimes eat it at Christmas
- cook: to make things for people to eat
- shoulder: this is between your arm and your neck
- fall (past tense fell) to go down suddenly
- try: to want to do something but not to do it well
- walking stick: a long, thin piece of wood; you use this to help you to walk
- owner: the person that something belongs to
- advertisement: you pay to put this in a newspaper
- intelligent: quick-thinking
- poor: not rich
- nose: this is between your eyes
- brain: this is in your head and you think with it
- buy (past tense bought): to give money for something
- grey: the color between white and black
- kitchen: the room in a house where people cook
- countess: the wife of a rich, important man
- disappear: to go away suddenly
- jewel: an expensive stone
- pay: (past paid): to give money for something
- report: some writing in a newspaper
- repair: to make something that is broken work again
- assistant manager: an important job in a hotel
- court: the police take someone here when they think he or she did something wrong
- maid: a woman who works in a rich person's house, or in a hotel
- thief: a person who takes things without asking
- prison: a place where people must stay when they do soemthing wrong
- case: when the police work to find answers
- High Court: The most important court in the country
- believe: to think that something is true
- sir: you say this when you talk to a rich or important man
- already: happening earlier than you think
- terrible: very bad
- safe: a box that people put expensive things in so thieves can't get them
- innocent: doing nothing wrong
- housekeeper: a woman who looks after a rich person's house
- address: the number and the street where somebody lives
- pub: a building where people go to have a drink
- museum: a building where people look at old or interesting things
- beer: a yellow or brown drink
- sell (past tense sold) to take money for something
- winner: the person who gets the right answer
- page: a book has many pages
- weak: not strong
- shout: to say loudly and angrily
- job: work
- cab: a taxi
- real: not false
- tail: the long thing at the back of an animal's body
- floor: the place in a room where you stand and walk
- feel sorry for: to be unhappy about
- truth: when what you say is true
- arrest: to take a person to prison
- police officers: policemen and policewomen
- decide: to think about something and then do it
- catch (past caught): to take quickly in your hands
- neck: this is between your head and your body
- witness: a person who saw a crime
- solution: the answer to a problem
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