福尔摩斯和公爵的儿子英文读后感

Duke’s Son

Brief Introduction

Sherlock Holmes and the Duke’s Son is also called Duke’s Son, which was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,a English famous writer. The novel was originally published by Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street in 2002. But the book I read is published by Foreign Language And Research Press in the People’s Republic of China in 2003. The book I read has 66 pages.

Main Contents

The story is about how Sherlock Holmes works on the mysterious cases. The writer wrote the story of Sherlock Holmes in his friend’s voice.His friend was named Watson.

Duke of Holderness was one of the greatest and the richest men. But his family was not very happy. The Duchess didn’t live with Duke. She left Duke for Paris. However his son loved his mother and was very unhappy when his mother left. Because of this, the Duke sent him to Dr Huxtable’s school. But on the night of the 13th of May the young Arthur disappeared. The Duke was very worried. The Duke promised to offer five thousand pounds for the news of his son, and another one thousand pounds for the name of his kidnapper.

Sherlock Holmes was a famous detective so they asked Holmes for help.Holmes and Watson went to Dr Huxtable’s school. At the same time they got the worse news that Heidgger, the German teacher was missing, too. Holmes began to ask something about the boy and the German teacher. At last he determined to go off to the north with Dr Huxtable to find some answers to this mystery.

They arrived at Dr Huxtable’s famous school in the northern hills. They met the Duke. Holmes asked the Duke something about the case. Then at once Holmes began to work carefully to investigate the boy’s bedroom and the German teacher’s room. They looked at the ivy on the wall and they saw the footprints under the German teacher’s window.But they learned about nothing.

Holmes and Watson analysised the case when Dr Huxtable brought the boy’s hat.

Dr Huxtable said that he found it at north of Ragged Shaw,so they determined to walk north,across the moor.

The next day they moved slowly across the moor, looking at every centimeter of mud. At last they found the track of a bicycle. After assisting the track of a bicycle Holmes knew the bicycle was not Heidgger’s. Then he found the right track. Suddenly the track stopped. He found some blood. Following the blood, he found much blood. Behind a bush they saw a shoe and found a body. But they still couldn’t who is the Crime.Watson was a little discouraged. Holmes said every mystery had an answer. They found tyre again. However, the Palmer Tyre can tell them nothing more, so they must go back to the Dunlop Tyre.They found the Dunlop track again and lost it again. They walked down to the Chesterfiled road and along to the Green Man Inn. Holmes found something from Hayes’s words, behaviors and his horses when they arrived at Hayes’s house. They found James Wilder, the Duke’s secretary came into Hayes’s house and Hayes escaped.

The next day the answers were obvious. Holmes was surprised about the answers. I was surprised, too. James was Duke’s elder son. James hated Duchess because she was not his mother. James hated Arthur because Arthur had everything that James never could have.And because of this, Duke sent Author to Dr Huxtable’s school. James asked Hayes for help to catch Arthur. James made the most of it that Arthur missed his mother. He cheated Arthur and let him go to the Green Man. When Arthur left the school, the German teacher found him. It was Hayes who killed him because Hayes let his deed out. All the mysteries were clear. Arthur and Duchess would return home. James was leaving for Australia. Sherlock Holmes got twelve thousand pounds and began to work the next case. The story was over.

Excellent episodes

1.When visitors came to see Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street, they often did

surprising things, Sometimes they put their heads in their hands and cried.

Sometimes they talked and talked, and couldn’t stop. And sometimes they just sat there and didn’t say a word. But nobody was more surprising than Dr Huxtable. 2.We moved slowly across the moor, looking at every centimeter of mud. We found