El misterio de Boscombe Valley/The Boscombe Valley mistery: Edición bilingüe/Bilingual edition – hinnat ja saatavuus

Comienza este relato cuando Watson recibe un telegrama de Sherlock Holmes, mientras desayuna apaciblemente con la se ora Watson. El texto dice: " Tiene usted un par de d as libres? Acabo de recibir un telegrama del oeste de Inglaterra en relaci n con la tragedia del valle de Boscombe. Me encantar a llevarle. Tiempo y panorama excelentes. Saldr de Paddington a las 11.15 h." Watson parte con Holmes hacia el valle de Boscombe, una regi n cerca de Ross, en Herefordshire. A su llegada, el inspector Lestrade de Scotland Yard se encarga de ponerles en antecedentes de lo que, dentro de su miop a habitual, es un caso claro. El joven James ha asesinado a su padre, el granjero McCarthy. Aunque la culpabilidad del joven parece evidente, atendiendo a las s plicas de Alice Turner, hija del millonario John Turner e ntima amiga del joven, por caballerosidad, Lestrade ha solicitado la presencia de Sherlock Holmes. ste demostrar , una vez m s, la ineficacia de los m todos policiales habituales. Gracias a su brillante actuaci n, saldr a la luz un s rdido caso de chantaje y venganza, donde el aut ntico criminal resultar ser la propia v ctima. Lestrade summons Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local landowner has been murdered outdoors. The deceased's estranged son is strongly implicated. Holmes quickly determines that a mysterious third man may be responsible for the crime, unraveling a thread involving a secret criminal past, thwarted love, and blackmail. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson take a train to Boscombe Valley, in Herefordshire. En route, Holmes reads the news and briefs Watson on their new case. John Turner, a widower and a major landowner who has a daughter named Alice, lives there with a fellow expatriate from Australia, Charles McCarthy, a widower who has a son named James. Charles has been found dead near Boscombe Pool. It was reported that he was there to meet someone. Two witnesses testify that they saw Charles walking into the woods followed by James, who was carrying a gun. Patience Moran, daughter of a lodgekeeper, says that she saw Charles and James arguing, that, when James raised his hand as if to hit his father, she ran to her mother, and that while she was telling her mother what she saw James rushed to their house seeking help. The Morans followed James back to the Pool, where they found his father dead. James was arrested and charged with murder. Alice Turner believes that James is innocent and has contacted Lestrade, a Scotland Yard detective who in turn has asked Holmes' help.