Garnet Graded Oracle Reader Beginner to Pre-intermediate Level 4: The Case of the Dead Batsman Book

Published 2013.

Currently comprising 16 titles across four stages - from beginner to upper intermediate - the series is carefully graded, lexically and structurally, to encourage children and young adults to read for pleasure and at speed. Ther stories are all, first and foremost, just that - stories, from ELT authors well known for their ability to craft original and engaging narratives to entertain and educate.

Each reader contains striking and contemporary full-colour illustrations and photos, resource pages of well-scaffolded exercises, and an easy-to-use glossary. Titles in Levels 1 and 2 are 32 pages each, while titles in Levels 3 and 4 are 40 pages each. Each reader is available with or without an audio CD.

'I have been investigating cricket matches, Watson,' said Holmes. 'In the last twenty-five years, three people have been killed during cricket matches. Two of them were Pendryth and Dodds during the last two weeks, in the same village cricket team.'

Two tragic accidents in two weeks. Two players from the same village team are dead, both struck on the forehead by the cricket ball. Is this a case for the famous detective Sherlock Holmes?

Level 4 1,250 headwords

This original story is based on the Sherlock Holmes mysteries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.