SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE BLUE DIAMOND (Level 2)

'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:

1. diamond: a very expensive stone that usually has no colour
2. sitting-room: the room in a house where people sit and talk
3. newspaper: people read about things that happen every day in this
4. magnifying glass: when you look through this, small things are big
5. crime: killing someone, or taking money from someone
6. doorman: a man working at a hotel; he opens the front door for visitors
7. bird: an animal that can fly; you can eat some birds
8. goose (plural geese) a large, usually white bird; people sometimes eat it at Christmas
9. cook: to make things for people to eat
10. shoulder: this is between your arm and your neck
11. fall (past tense fell) to go down suddenly
12. try: to want to do something but not to do it well
13. walking stick: a long, thin piece of wood; you use this to help you to walk
14. owner: the person that something belongs to
15. advertisement: you pay to put this in a newspaper
16. intelligent: quick-thinking
17. poor: not rich
18. nose: this is between your eyes
19. brain: this is in your head and you think with it
20. buy (past tense bought): to give money for something
21. grey: the color between white and black
22. kitchen: the room in a house where people cook
23. countess: the wife of a rich, important man
24. disappear: to go away suddenly
25. jewel: an expensive stone
26. pay: (past paid): to give money for something
27. report: some writing in a newspaper
28. repair: to make something that is broken work again
29. assistant manager: an important job in a hotel
30. court: the police take someone here when they think he or she did something wrong
31. maid: a woman who works in a rich person's house, or in a hotel
32. thief: a person who takes things without asking 
33. prison: a place where people must stay when they do soemthing wrong
34. case: when the police work to find answers
35. High Court: The most important court in the country
36. believe: to think that something is true
37. sir: you say this when you talk to a rich or important man
38. already: happening earlier than you think
39. terrible: very bad
40. safe: a box that people put expensive things in so thieves can't get them
41. innocent: doing nothing wrong
42. housekeeper: a woman who looks after a rich person's house
43. address: the number and the street where somebody lives
44. pub: a building where people go to have a drink
45. museum: a building where people look at old or interesting things
46. beer: a yellow or brown drink
47. sell (past tense sold) to take money for something 
48. winner: the person who gets the right answer
49. page: a book has many pages
50. weak: not strong
51. shout: to say loudly and angrily
52. job: work
53. cab: a taxi
54. real: not false
55. tail: the long thing at the back of an animal's body
56. floor: the place in a room where you stand and walk
57. feel sorry for: to be unhappy about
58. truth: when what you say is true
59. arrest: to take a person to prison
60. police officers: policemen and policewomen
61. decide: to think about something and then do it
62. catch (past caught): to take quickly in your hands 
63. neck: this is between your head and your body
64. witness: a person who saw a crime
65. solution: the answer to a problem