His Last Bow
Read His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle in Spanish and English, a parallel text graded reader with audio. Available in CEFR levels A2, B1, B2, and C2.
About this book
A cardboard box arrives packed in coarse salt, and inside it lie two freshly severed human ears. A Spanish host is found dead on Oxshott Common the morning after his entire household vanished in the night. A lodger in Bloomsbury who never shows his face communicates only through printed notes left beside his meals. His Last Bow gathers eight Sherlock Holmes cases in which, as Holmes himself observes, "there is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible."
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1. La extraña experiencia del señor John Scott Eccles
1. The Strange Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles
Mi cuaderno dice que era un día frío y con viento, cerca del final de marzo de 1892.
My notebook says it was a cold, windy day near the end of March in 1892.
Holmes recibió un telegrama mientras comíamos, y escribió una respuesta rápidamente.
Holmes got a telegram while we were eating lunch, and he quickly wrote a reply.
No dijo nada sobre eso, pero siguió pensando en ello.
He said nothing about it, but he kept thinking about it.
Después de comer, se quedó de pie delante del fuego con aire de estar pensando.
After lunch, he stood in front of the fire with a thoughtful look on his face.
Fumaba su pipa y miraba el telegrama de vez en cuando.
He smoked his pipe and glanced at the telegram from time to time.
Entonces, de repente, se volvió hacia mí con una mirada divertida.
Then he suddenly turned to me with a playful look in his eyes.
History
- Written by Arthur Conan Doyle in English
- Adapted by Line by Line Publishing in 2026