I read a book named : Sherlock Holmes, the top secret plans. I read this book at home for my English assignment. I lent this book at the library so I could read it. I don’t really hate or like this book because in some parts is boring and other parts are not. I will discuss more details about it further within this review.

 

The book starts when Mycroft, the brother of Sherlock Holmes, write a telegram to Sherlock, and he says that he wants to speak about Mr. Arthur Cadogan, a men that was murdered and threw to the train roads.
After Mycroft arrive, with the inspector Lestrade, to Sherlock, and his friend Watson, house. There, they talk about Arthur Cadogan, the boy murdered:
He was twenty-seven years old and he lived with his wife in Woolwich, and he worked in Woolwich Arsenal. On Monday night he was in Woolwich with his wife and he has theatre tickets but suddenly he run and left his wife in the street. After a worker find his body in the train roads and in his pocket he has a top-secret plans for a British submarine.
When they finish to talk Holmes and Watson start to investigate very quickly because those plans are very important.

 

The writer was Arthur Conan Doyle. He was born in Edinburg on may of 1859. When he was young he read a lot, but he wasn't a very good student. When he left the school he went to Edinburg University to be a doctor. But he didn't have money and he wrote stories to make money. In 1881 he left the University and worked as a doctor on a ship. He was a good doctor but he didn't make much money and he started to write again. In 1890 he wrote a story called "A Study in Scarlet" and he introduced the character of Sherlock Holmes. He wrote 59 more stories about him, but also he wrote other type of books. He died in England on July of 1930.

I like this book a lot because I like mystery and detective stories, and also I like it because the killer is very unexpected. But still it is a story for people between 14 and 16 years so if you’re younger than that you will not understand a lot about the book because there are a few difficult terms within this book.

 

As conclusion I really recommend it for people between 14 and 16 years old.

Written by Isaac de Boer