Sherlock Holmes re-told for children / adapté pour les jeunes lecteurs - The Six Napoleons / Les Six Napoléons E-Book

Mark Williams

• Herausgeber: Mark Williams
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Französisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

How old were you when you discovered Sherlock? As part of the Classics For Kids series international best-selling author Mark Williams is proud to present the Sherlock Holmes short story adaptation: The Six Napoleons. Come join Holmes and Watson as they solve the mystery of the six Napoleons in a child-friendly, twenty-first century English and with the seamier side of Victorian life left out. Ideal for children aged 9-12 to get started with the world's most famous detective. Bilingual English-French edition. Sherlock Holmes: Les Six Napoléons, adaptation d’une nouvelle de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, appartient à la série Classiques pour enfants de Mark Williams, auteur à succès. Venez rejoindre Holmes et Watson alors qu’ils tentent d’éclaircir le mystère des Six Napoléons dans une version modernisée, adaptée aux jeunes lecteurs, et laissant de côté les aspects les plus sombres de la société victorienne. Un excellent premier contact avec le détective le plus célèbre du monde !

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Classics For Kids

Classiques pour les Enfants

Sherlock Holmes

The Six Napoleons

Les Six Napoléons

re-told for children

adapté pour les jeunes lecteurs

Mark Williams

traduit de l’anglais par

Anne-Sophie Leluan-Pinker

© Mark Williams 2016

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The Six Napoleons

The Six Napoleons 1.

Quite often during my time at 211b Baker Street we had visits from the police. Detectives would pop in to say hello, and to chat with Sherlock Holmes, who was always eager to hear the latest news and gossip from the world of crime.

One evening it happened that Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard called on us.

“I’m glad you are here, Dr. Watson,” said Lestrade as we settled down with a pot of tea Mrs. Hudson had brought us. “I’m working on a case right now that is such a petty crime I would not want to bother Mr. Holmes with, but which perhaps you might be able to throw some light on.”

I sat up, happy to offer any help I could. “Is someone sick?” I asked.

“Not physically,” said Lestrade, “but mentally I think, yes, for what else could explain such strange events?”

Holmes leaned back in his chair. “Tell us more, Lestrade,” he said. “This sounds like it might be interesting.”

“Well, gentlemen,” said “Lestrade, “it seems someone really hates Napoleon I.”

I stared at Lestrade in astonishment. “Napoleon I?”

Holmes laughed. “The last I heard, Lestrade, hating someone was not a crime. Least of all hating a long-dead Emperor of France! You are right, this is indeed a matter for Watson, not I.”

“But hold on, Mr. Holmes,” said Lestrade. “There’s more. You see, this unknown person has taken to smashing plaster busts of the Emperor.”

Holmes shrugged. “That still sounds like matter for the good doctor,” he said.

“Ah,” said Lestrade. “But this is where it gets strange, Mr. Holmes, because whoever it doing this does not break his own plaster busts. He burgles the houses of people who own such things and then smashes them to pieces. But he leaves everything else untouched.”

Holmes clapped his hands with glee. “My dear Lestrade,” he said, “how perfectly wonderful! Now you have both of us interested!”