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    Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock For Kids: Silver Blaze
    Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock For Kids: Silver Blaze
    Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock For Kids: Silver Blaze
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    Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock For Kids: Silver Blaze

    By Mark Williams

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    As part of the Classics For Kids series international best-selling author Mark Williams is proud to present the latest of the Sherlock Holmes short story adaptations: Silver Blaze.

    Come join Holmes and Watson as they solve the mystery of the missing race horse in a child-friendly, twenty-first century English and with the seamier side of Victorian life left out.

    Ideal for children of all ages to get started with the world's most famous detective.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOdyssey
    Release dateAug 5, 2015
    ISBN9786050403428
    Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock For Kids: Silver Blaze
    Author

    Mark Williams

    Mark S. Williams (PhD, Ateneo de Davao University, Philippines) served in ministry to Muslims for twenty years (1990–2010) with SIM in the Philippines. He published articles in the Journal of Asian Mission and Missiology and was a contributing author in Missionary Methods: Research, Reflections, and Realities (William Carey Library).

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      Book preview

      Sherlock Holmes - Mark Williams

      Classics For Kids

      Sherlock For Kids

      Silver Blaze

      adapted for children from

      the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle original,

      by

      Mark Williams

      © 2015 Mark Williams

      Published by Odyssey.

      ISBN: 978-1-908961-83-9

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

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      8.

      Thank you for reading.

      1.

      Mrs. Hudson had prepared us a fine breakfast, a little larger than usual. The kind she arranged when we would not be about for lunch. So I was not at all surprised when my dear friend Sherlock Holmes told me he would be leaving for Dartmoor that morning.

      Silver Blaze? I asked.

      Silver Blaze, Holmes said. And I trust you will join me, Watson. I fear this is task where I will need some help.

      Of course I agreed immediately. The missing racehorse, Silver Blaze, had been headline news for several days now, and everyone had an opinion about what might have happened to the animal, and who had killed the horse’s trainer.

      But the newspapers all showed the local police making no progress in their investigations. I knew that, if there was but one person in the country who could solve this mystery, it was Sherlock Holmes.

      And so it was, an hour later, we were leaving London’s Paddington Station and heading west for Exeter.

      Holmes had bought all the latest newspapers at the station just before we boarded the train, and for the first part of the journey read through them one by one, but seemed to find nothing of interest. Then I saw him stare out of the window for several minutes, while checking his pocket-watch.

      Fifty-three and a half miles an hour, he said to me. That is our current speed.

      I stared at Holmes. How can you possibly know that? I asked.

      Holmes pointed to the telegraph poles that followed the railway. If you know that each pole is sixty yards apart then the calculation is quite simple, he said.

      I thought to myself, Only if you have a

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