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Academic Curriculum

Senior Library Featured DVD – BBC’s Sherlock Series 1

Episode 1:  A Study in Pink

A war hero, invalided home from Afghanistan, meets a strange but charismatic genius who is looking for a flat mate – it is London in 2010, and Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes are meeting for the first time. A string of impossible suicides has Scotland Yard baffled – and only one man can help.

Episode 2:  The Blind Banker

A mysterious cipher is being scrawled on the walls around London. The first person to see the cipher is dead within hours of reading it. Sherlock plunges into a world of codes and symbols, consulting with London’s best graffiti artists. He soon learns that the city is in the grip a gang of international smugglers, a secret society called the Black Lotus.

Episode 3:  The Great Game

A strange clue in an empty room, a blood-soaked car, a priceless Old Master, a deranged bomber. With the clock ticking, the curtain rises on a battle of wits between Sherlock, John and the shadowy stranger who seems to know all the answers.