title: Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  Arthur Conan Doyle 
description: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish writer who studied medicine before becoming the writer of the famous Sherlock Holmes series.
zlib_text: Sherlock Holmes 
  Short Stories
  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
  Sherlock Holmes 
  Short Stories
  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
  Level 5
  Selected and retold by Anthony Laude 
  Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter
  
  Pearson Education Limited
  Edinburgh Gate, Harlow,
  Essex CM20 2JE, England 
  and Associated Companies throughout the world.
  ISBN: 978-1-4058-6523-4
  First published in the Longman Simplified English Series 1977 
  First published in the Longman Fiction Series 1993 
  This adaptation first published in 1996 
  First published by Penguin Books 1999 
  This edition published 2008
  7 9 10 8
  Original copyright ©The Copyright holders of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-works, 
  reproduced by kind permission of Jonathan Clowes Ltd London, 
  on behalf of Andrea Plunket, Trustee & Administrator 
  Text copyright © Penguin Books Ltd 1999 
  This edition copyright © Pearson Education Ltd 2008
  Typeset by Graphicraft Ltd, Hong Kong 
  Set in ll/14pt Bembo 
  Printed in China 
  SWTC/07
  All rights reserved; no part of this publi