that he didn’t have a birthday present.
7. Many years ago, when he was a young man, Dan’s uncle broke the law, but his family can’t forgive him even now.
4. Complete the sentences with the words and phrases above and from the previous parts in the correct form.
1. A few strange deaths… in the town before the police started investigation.
2. Sherlock Holmes was able… even the darkest and tragic cases.
3. Alice’s mother always used the girl’s poor health as… not to let the girl go out with her friends.
4. Tom didn’t want… his cousin to a discotheque because he didn’t… dancing. He could even say he hated dancing.
5. Has it ever… to you that your mum needs your help in housework?
6. Most people think it is not polite… other people without a telephone call before it.
7. The book… unknown facts of the great scientist’s life.
8. If you are interested in… books, go over to those shelves. We have all kinds of books – classical detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, hard-boiled detective novels by Raymond Chandler and others, modern police novels.
“It is very important, Miss Stoner,” said he, as we have already left the house and were standing in the park, “that you should absolutely follow my advice in every detail.”
“I shall certainly do so. I am in your hands.”
“In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in your room.”
Both Miss Stoner and I looked at him in surprise.
“Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that there is a hotel in the village over there?”
“Yes, the Crown.”
“Very good. Your windows can be seen from there?”
“Certainly.”
“You must go to your room, saying you have a headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when he goes to his room, you must open your window, and put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then go quietly into the room where you slept before. I have no doubt that you can sleep there for one night.”
“Oh, yes, easily. But what will you do?”
“We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate the cause of this noise which you heard.”
“I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already come to some conclusion,” said Miss Stoner.
“Perhaps I have.”
“Then, tell me what was the cause of my sister’s death.”
“I should like to have clearer evidence before I speak.”