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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A STUDY
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B In 1885 Conan Doyle received a
degree in medicine from Edinburgh
University.
C In 1887 A Study in Scarlet was first
published, in Beeton’s Christmas
Annual.
D In 1890 the second Sherlock
Holmes novel, The Sign of Four,
was published.
E In 1893 Conan Doyle’s wife was
diagnosed with tuberculosis.
F In 1901 The Strand magazine
published the first episode of The
Hound of the Baskervilles.
Page 7 – exercise 2
A On a ship. First as an arctic whaler,
and then travelling to Africa.
B He was a doctor, a politician, a
crime writer and a spiritualist.
C No, he felt his life was being taken
over by Sherlock Holmes and
wanted to end the stories. He
probably wanted to be
remembered for other things, too.
D The death of both his father and
wife in just a short space of time.
E Open answer.
Page 7 – exercise 3
1, 2 and 4 are connected to Sherlock
Holmes. 3 and 5 are connected to
Agatha Christie’s famous Belgian
detective, Hercule Poirot.
PART ONE - CHAPTER ONE
Page 19 – exercise 1
1C 2B 3C 4A
Page 20 – exercise 2
A5 B4 C2 D3 E1
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Page 20 – exercise 3
Possible answers: 1 He was brown
from the sun. 2 He was probably a
doctor. 3 He had been
shot/wounded. 4 He had hurt his
arm while he was in the army.
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Page 30 – exercise 4
Open answers.
1 The man is face down. 2 There is
no blood on the floor. 3 The
detective (left) doesn’t have a
moustache. 4 Holmes does not have
a hat. 5 There is a lamp, not a
candle, above the fireplace. 6 The
window frame is a different colour.
7 The detective doesn’t have the
telegram in his hand. 8 The victim is
not holding anything in his hand.
CHAPTER TWO
Page 21 – exercise 1
A-C Open answers. (Possible answers
C: there is no light in the room; there
is blood on the floor; the man has
something in his hand).
Page 21 – exercise 2
Mr Gregson at Scotland Yard, asking
for Holmes’ help in the case.
Page 28 – exercise 1
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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A Where did the murder take place?
In a house on Brixton Road.
B Who was investigating the case?
Scotland Yard – detectives
Gregson and Lestrade.
C What did the house look like? It
looked empty and sad and had a
small, untidy garden. Inside the
wallpaper was old and torn and
there was no furniture in the room
they were in.
D Did Lestrade think the murderer
was a man? No, he thought it was
a woman named Rachel.
E What did the man have in his
pocket? A gold watch and two
letters.
F What was the word (written) on
the wall? Rache.
Page 28 – exercise 2
1C 2D 3E 4A 5F 6B
Page 29 – exercise 3
1 was found/has been found 2 victim
3 is thought 4 have said 5 evidence
6 was murdered 7 motive 8 is
9 are looking 10 clues 11 is believed
12 have been asked 13 case
(deduction not needed)
Page 30 – exercise 5
Part one:
A Watson B Holmes C Gregson and
Lestrade D Holmes E Watson
F Holmes.
Part two:
Holmes’ questions need more direct
answers, e.g., ‘Are you sure there’s no
injury?’ The answer is often yes or
no.
Part three: open answers.
Page 31 – exercise 6
Open answers.
CHAPTER THREE
Page 31 – exercise 1
Holmes says he knows these things
about the murderer: he is tall, with
small feet. He has a red face. He has
long fingernails on his right hand. He
smokes cigars. He also knows that he
arrived at the house in a cab with the
victim.
Page 31 – exercise 2
The cab he sees from the wheel
marks from the night before (only
one set of wheel marks). The
footprints show that he is tall but has
small feet. The scratch of his
fingernail when writing with the
blood on the wall show he writes with
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his right hand and his fingernail must
be long. There was ash from a cigar
on the floor. It is not clear why he
had a red face.
Page 39 – exercise 1
A F – He sent a telegram.
B T C F – It was only Holmes that
saw it. D T E F – He left a ring.
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A nearest B murderer C confused
D drunk E lose F disappointed
G man H tired I young
Missing word: secretary
Page 42 – exercise 8
gold wedding ring; found – Brixton
Road; ask for (not apply); 221B Baker
Street.
Page 39 – exercise 2
Part one:
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Page 40 – exercise 3
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Page 50 – exercise 4
To create suspense and not give all
the details so we want to know more.
Possible answers: Chapter One: ‘But
this is terrible! There’s been a
murder.’ We want to know more
about the murder. Chapter Two:
‘Come, Doctor Watson… don’t waste
your time looking for Miss Rachel.’
We want to know more about what
Holmes knows. Chapter Three: ‘His
passenger had disappeared… That
wasn’t an old woman.’ We want to
know who the passenger was.
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He gives one to a sick dog.
One pill is harmless, the
other pill kills the dog.
Possible answers as to why
the murder had two pills: he
wanted to trick the victim
into thinking he was going
to poison him and then kill
him another way. He wanted
to trick the police, etc. Real
answer: he was giving his
victim a choice over life and
death to truly see if there
was justice.
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CHAPTER FIVE
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to what Holmes really
does know and we want
to know how he will
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just like Watson does.
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Page 49 – exercise 1
Crime type: murder
At: 23, Brixton Road
Time reported: 2.30 a.m
Victim: M. Name: Enoch Drebber
State of victim...: already dead
Time of death: late evening/early
morning Cause of death: poison?
Name of other officers…: Lestrade
and Gregson (Scotland Yard)
Suspect: M. Name: unknown
Other information: tall, small feet,
long fingernails. Smokes. Possibly
American. Speaks German?
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1 2 a.m. 2 no one 3 a light in one of
the windows 4 called for help 5 tall,
with a red face, wearing an overcoat
6 an idiot/stupid
Page 42 – exercise 6
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CHAPTER FOUR
1 Arthur Charpentier used a stick to
kill Drebber.
2 Drebber was staying at
Charpentier’s Guest House.
3 The wedding ring was just a trick
to give the police the wrong idea.
4 Drebber became violent because
he was drunk.
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Page 59 – exercise 2
We don’t know D, H, or J. We only know G
in part.
Page 60 – exercise 3
Name and
description of the
murderer (or
Holmes’ suspect)
The victims
Where the bodies
were found
Cause of death
(if known)
Jefferson Hope.
Tall man, short feet,
red face. Long
fingernails. Probably
American. He’s a
cab driver.
Enoch Drebber –
American, middleaged, beard, often
drunk.
in a house in Brixton most likely poisoned the smell of poison
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blood, the writing
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Joseph Stangerson.
Drebber’s secretary.
Also American.
in a room in the
Halliday Hotel
stabbed, possibly
poisoned?
Clues
pills (one poisoned),
the writing on the
wall, blood from
knife wound
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Page 61 – exercise 8
All of these objects could be used
except possibly a fingernail or a letter
(unless first poisoned or with
explosives, etc.). Money could be a
motive, but not a weapon.
Open answers.
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PART TWO – CHAPTER ONE
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Page 74 – exercise 1
Student’s activity.
A T B F – they were going to find a
new place to live.
C F – they took them to Utah.
D T E F – he did not oppose the
marriage.
F T G T H F – she had to choose
between Stangerson or Drebber’s sons.
I F – she was extremely sad.
Page 76 – exercise 4
Open answers but possible adjectives
include:
A – hardworking, dedicated, poor
B – dedicated, cruel, powerful,
drunk, violent
C – weak, cruel, powerful
The man is too small to reach the
button on the 13th floor so he presses
the button for the 9th floor, which is
Page 74 – exercise 2
where he can reach, and goes up the
Open answers. Possible answers:
rest of the stairs. Of course, when he
A The telegram found in the room
remembers his umbrella he can use that
says ‘JH is in Europe’. We know
to reach the button of the 13th floor!
Jefferson Hope is the murderer and
here his past life in America is
London in the 1880s
introduced. We also read the names
Stangerson and Drebber, so we
Page 65 – exercise 9
realise we will now find out that
A F – the introduction of the
the motive is connected to
Education Act changed things.
something which happened in
B F – they are similar.
America, not London.
C T D T E F – there were not enough B Yes, because he becomes rich and is
houses and living conditions were
happy raising Lucy as his daughter,
terrible.
but the only problem is polygamy
F F – it was a period of peace and
and the fact he therefore doesn’t
security for the rich.
take a wife.
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Possible answers: scared, alone,
Page 65 – exercise 2
afraid but hopeful.
Open answers.
Page 75 – exercise 3
Name of religion
Central
figure(s)/founder
Holy places
Place of worship
Holy text
Buddhism
Siddharta
Gautama
Tibet
temple
the Four Noble
Truths
Christianity
Jesus Christ
Jesrusalem
church
The Holy Bible
Islam
the Prophet
Muhammad
Mecca
mosque
the Qur’an
Judaism
Abraham, Moses
Jerusalem, Mount
Sinai
synagogue, temple
The Church of
Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints
(Mormons)
Joseph Smith
Salt Lake City
temple (church)
A 5 B 2 C 4 D not needed E 1 F 3
Page 76 – exercise 5
1 to 2 these 3 that 4 with 5 called
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Page 86 – exercise 1
A6 B3 C2 D7 E4 F8 G5 H1
Page 86 – exercise 2
We don’t yet know: C, E. We know: A,
B, D, F (partly). Answers: A – Salt
Lake City; B – Yes, they were
wealthy; D – The ring belonged to
the woman he loved and it was a
symbol of his revenge; F (we know
this in part) – He wanted revenge for
the fact they killed John Ferrier and
died because of them. We don’t know
why he chose the pills or why
Stangerson was stabbed.
Page 86 – exercise 3
Possible answers: We don’t really
know them at the beginning and
because they are the victims, maybe
we even feel sorry for them and we
want the murderer to be caught. Now
we probably don’t feel sorry for
Drebber or Stangerson because of
what happened to John and Lucy. We
possibly even think of Jefferson Hope
(before the murder) as a hero.
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Open answers. (Possible answers
include the fact that both Drebber
and Stangerson were in a way guilty
of murder themselves. Hope did
something that he shouldn’t have
done, but this was not such an
unusual way of resolving such a thing
at this time).
Page 88 – exercise 7
Watson, Gregson, Stangerson,
Jefferson.
Page 88 – exercise 8
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Page 108 – exercise 3
Page 100 – exercise 1
Open answers.
Lestrade is driving the carriage, the
others are inside the carriage.
CHAPTER FOUR
1 amazement 2 conclusion
3 scientific 4 evolution 5 explained
6 solution
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Page 102 – exercise 1
Page 108 – exercise 4
Watson is looking happy and curious.
He also looks like he admires Holmes.
Holmes looks happy and satisfied
with his investigations.
Open answers, but possible answers
include:
A Sherlock Holmes is obviously not
stupid, but certainly a bit arrogant
in the way he is convinced that his
answers are right just because of
his own deductions. These are not
always based on facts that are
definite or scientific.
B No, they probably aren’t as stupid.
Conan Doyle makes them more
stupid, so that Sherlock Holmes
appears to be clever.
C There probably are other possible
solutions to some of the clues, e.g.
maybe the murderer wasn’t the
cabdriver, but he paid a cabdriver
to commit the murder.
Possibly negative. Although they are
the victims we feel that they are dead
because they wouldn’t accept Lucy
and John’s choices. We learn about
polygamy, and also in this case see a
negative side of it. In the eyes of the
author they appear controlling and
intolerant.
A It was the only thing he had to
remind him of Lucy. He lost it after
he showed it to the victim as he
killed him. Jefferson returned the
house to try and get it but met the
policeman and pretended to be
drunk. He sent a friend to get it
from Holmes and Watson.
B Jefferson was poor and had to get
many different jobs. We know that
he worked as a cleaner in America
and a cabdriver in London.
C We know that he held a knife to
Drebber’s throat and gave him a
choice between two pills – one
poisoned, the other not. He then
took the other pill himself. Drebber
died and he showed him the
wedding ring. Jefferson did the
same thing with Stangerson. But
Stangerson did not take the pills.
Instead he jumped at him, and so
Jefferson stabbed him.
D He was standing in the cabdriver’s
yard when a young boy said that
someone wanted a cab in Baker
Street. He went there not
suspecting anything and was
arrested by Holmes.
Page 94 – exercise 3
Page 100 – exercise 3
Open answers.
(some of the information to discuss
these questions can be found by
using a search engine on the Internet
and key words – Mormons + wives
and marriage, Mormons + church).
The identity of the person who came
to collect the ring.
Page 88 – exercise 9
2 and 3 are pronounced [sn]. Son as
a separate word is pronounced as a
strong sound, not a weak sound. In all
the surnames ‘-son’ is pronounced as
a weak sound.
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A3 B4 C6 D1 E5 F2
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1 HIJACKER 2 PICKPOCKET
3 SHOPLIFTER 4 MUGGER
5 BURGLAR 6 KIDNAPPER
The missing word is: HITMAN.
Page 89 – exercise 12
Open answers.
The Mormons
Page 93 – exercise 1
1A 2D 3C 4B
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Page 102 – exercise 2
1A 2B 3B 4C
Page 102 – exercise 3
Open answers.
Page 107 – exercise 1
A F – Jefferson Hope was dead.
B T C T D T E T F F – he was
amused.
Page 107 – exercise 2
B The man must have been poisoned.
C The dead man must have been
afraid or angry and probably knew
his killer.
D The murderer must have wanted it
very much. It probably reminded
him of a woman.
E The telegram must have been to
warn Drebber and Stangerson that
Jefferson Hope was looking for
them.
F The murderer must have been the
cab driver.
Page 109 – exercise 5
Open answers.
Page 109 – exercise 6
Open answers.
Page 101 – exercise 4
London. Possible answers: They have
an engine. You no longer need a
horse! They all look the same:
probably the carriages were different
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love for a young man, Jefferson Hope. Fortunately her father
accepts him but the Mormons don’t. They want her to marry one
of the elders’ sons.
1 What can you remember about the events in the story? Complete the
sentences with the correct information.
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The letter Holmes received was from..............................
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Both men are very powerful and are determined to use their
position in the Mormon community to make John Ferrier change
his mind. John Ferrier soon receives threats and knows he must
leave if he is to protect both himself and Lucy.
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But just when we think they have found freedom something
terrible happens. Jefferson goes to hunt for food but returns to
find the grave of his friend, John Ferrier. Lucy has also
disappeared. Hope decides to return to Salt Lake City to rescue
Lucy from the Mormons, but it is too late, she is already married,
very unhappily, to one of their sons.
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Jefferson Hope chases Drebber and Strangerson across America
and finally to Europe, where he catches up with them in London.
We know the rest of the story. Now we only need to know how
Jefferson killed his victims.
2 The first murder took place in..............................
3 When the detectives looked in Enoch Drebbers’ pockets they
found..............................
4 The murderer returned to the house because..............................
5 Holmes said that word ‘Rache’ was..............................
6 When Holmes jumped onto the cab to follow the old
woman..............................
7 Drebber and Strangerson left their hotel to go to the station to
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8 Gregson said they had found the murderer. He said he was
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9 Lestrade went to the Halliday Inn to find Stangerson but
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A Jefferson Hope meanwhile has gone away from Salt Lake City, to
make money so that he can marry Lucy. John Ferrier waits for
Jefferson to return. The three run away secretly at night.
10 In the room at the Halliday Inn they found ..............................
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Holmes gives a pill to ..............................
12 Jefferson said that he continued working as a cab driver because
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FCE 2 You are going to read a summary of the two chapters in Part Two set in
America. Three paragraphs have been removed. Choose one (A-D) to fit
each gap. There is one paragraph you don’t need to use.
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In Part Two, Conan Doyle changes not only the location but also
the style to give us what seems to be a completely new story. It is
only when we read on that we realise that he is giving us all we
need to know to solve the rest of the mystery.
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As the years go by everything goes well for John Ferrier, but
trouble lies ahead in the form of now older beautiful Lucy and her
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14 Holmes is not told the identity of ..............................
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B The new story is set in a North American desert. As the only survivors
of a group of 21 people travelling to the west, the situation for John
Ferrier and a little girl, Lucy, appears hopeless. But then they meet a
caravan of Mormons who take them to start their new life in Salt Lake
City.
C Lucy dies broken-hearted but Hope still manages to get into the city to
take Lucy’s wedding ring from her lifeless body. But this is just the
start of his desire for revenge.
D It is at this point that we see a less happy side of their life within the
Mormon community. The two men who want Lucy to marry their sons,
a certain Drebber and Strangerson, are already known to us, but we
only know them as the victims. We now start to find out more about
their characters.
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1 …Detective Gregson of Scotland Yard.
2 …a house in Brixton Road.
3 …a business card with the victim’s name on it, a gold watch and two
tickets for a boat from Liverpool to New York.
4 …he wanted to get back the ring he had dropped.
5 …the German word for revenge.
6 …she disappeared and Holmes understood that it was really a young man
dressed as an old woman.
7 …catch a train to Liverpool.
8 …Arthur Charpentier, an officer in the Royal Navy.
9 …he had been murdered.
10 …a book, a pipe, a glass of water and a box containing two pills.
11 …the landlady’s dog.
12 …he came to Europe to follow Stangerson and Drebber and needed to
work, because he had no money to return to America.
13 …a laboratory where he worked in America.
14 …the friend who helped Jefferson Hope.
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