Cranston Public Library

At a boys' grammar school in Sheffield, eight boys are being coached for the Oxbridge entrance exams. It is the mid-eighties, and the main concern of the unruly bunch of bright sixth-formers is getting out, starting university - and starting life. At the heart of The History Boys are four characters, each with contrasting outlooks on teaching and school: Hector, an eccentric English teacher with no interest in exams; Irwin, a young supply teacher...

Holmes is struck down by a rare tropical disease and death seems imminent. His only hope lies in a planter from Sumatra whose expert knowledge comes at a price. In the second story, Watson goes to Switzerland to find an aristocrat who has vanished, but the trail leads back to a funeral parlor in London. In the third story, Watson enforces a relaxing holiday on Holmes to cure his work-related exhuastion. The eerie Cornish Coast provides exactly the...