The Naval Treaty (Easy Classics)

Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Stephanie Baudet

Narrated by Richard Usher

An illustrated adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes mystery – at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages!
Watson, do you think you could bring your friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes, down to see me? My position at the Foreign Office seemed safe until this horrible disaster. I fear my career is ruined!
War becomes a real threat after a top-secret document is stolen from the Foreign Office. But why has the thief waited ten weeks to sell the treaty? Holmes and Watson are plunged into a world of international diplomacy only to find that danger can come from unexpected quarters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sweet Cherry Publishing
• Release date: Jul 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781782264156

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. Before starting his writing career, Doyle attended medical school, where he met the professor who would later inspire his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. A Study in Scarlet was Doyle's first novel; he would go on to write more than sixty stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. He died in England in 1930.

Reviews for The Naval Treaty (Easy Classics)

[cbl_tn · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

An old schoolfriend of Watson’s turns to Sherlock Holmes to clear his name after the disappearance of important papers in his custody. Percy Phelps was copying the treaty in his office after hours. He left his office for a few minutes to find the commissionaire, and when he returned, the treaty was missing. When all the other suspects were cleared, suspicion fell on Phelps, and he collapsed under the mental strain. His fiancée has been caring for him in the home she shares with her brother. Naturally, Holmes succeeds where others have failed, discovering the location of the missing treaty and thus restoring his client’s honor.I enjoyed the mix of national security and domestic elements in this story, and I like it better than Doyle’s later and similar story, “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.” The circumstances surrounding the missing treaty seem to be an unsolvable puzzle, yet it barely challenged Holmes’s powers of deduction. His explanation is so logical that it’s a wonder the solution wasn’t obvious to everyone!

[lgandt · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The scene with the rose really took me by surprise. People do change during the course of their lives