Helbling Readers Red Series書系簡介
系列分為：
　　● Helbling Classics（經典文學）
　　● Helbling Fiction（當代原創）

全系列適合程度：劍橋英檢(Cambridge) KET / 全民英檢(GEPT) 初級 / 歐洲共同語言能力(CEF) A1~A2 / 倫敦聖三一學院(Trinity) 1~ 4 級

此系列書共分3個級數，分別是
Level 1 - 400字彙以上；認證級數Cambridge KET、CEF A1、Trinity1,2級
Level 2 - 600字彙以上；認證級數Cambridge KET、CEF A1/A2、Trinity 2,3級
Level 3 - 1000字彙以上；認證級數Cambridge KET、CEF A2、Trinity3,4級

本書特色─
◎About this Book單元: 分別提供學生與老師的語言學習或教學提示，並有本書文法結構要點。
◎Before Reading/After Reading: 閱讀前/後各有問題提問與練習，幫助理解作品內容並培養賞析 與批判思考能力。
◎精選深受青少年喜愛的經典名著，或專為青少年所寫的有趣故事。
◎依據CEF分級閱讀，讓英文學習精準到位。
◎附有MP3光碟，同時訓練閱讀與聽力技巧，還有聽力練習活動。
◎配合本書學習，提供免費的教學資源，包括練習單、解答及聽力練習原稿。
內容簡介：
The Red-headed League / Level 2 / Helbling Classics / Recording in British English
《紅髮聯盟》福爾摩斯說：「就像一種法則，陌生的人事物總是比它的真相來得更神秘。」
威爾遜委託了大偵探福爾摩斯和他最信任的朋友華生醫生，一起去調查一個神秘的組織紅髮的聯盟。卻發現紅髮聯盟受到許多人的觀注。
聯盟的意義是什麼？又是如何連會與威爾遜的助理文森特有關呢？
Book Description
“ As a rule,” said Holmes,
‘the stranger a thing seems the less mysterious it really is.”
When Jabez Wilson asks legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted friend, Dr Watson, to investigate a mysterious organization, The Red-headed League, the find that there is more to the organization than meets the eye.
What is the League and how is it connected to Jabez Wilson’s assistant Vincent Sqaulding?

作者簡介：

About the Author(作者簡介)
Arthur Conan Doyle is the inventor of Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most famous fictional detective. Lots of people think Sherlock Holmes is a real person and write to 221B Baker street, London, his address in Conan Doyle’s stories！
Doyle is born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1859. He works as a doctor until 1891 but he has a passion for writing stories. In 1891 he decides to become a full-time writer. His first story is a novel called A Study in Scarlet. He then writes a series of short stories called The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which are published in instalments by The Strand Magazine. The public love them, and want to read more about Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend, Dr Watson. Conan Doyle writes 56 Sherlock Holmes stories in total. One of the most famous and popular is The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Eventually Conan Doyle becomes tired of writing about the detective and he devides to “ kill” his creation. In The Final Problem Holmes is murdered by hos most dangerous enemy, Professor Moriarty. Conan Doyle’s reader are so angry that in the end he decides to bring Holmes back to life in The Empty House.
Conan Doyle dies in 1930. Sherlock Holmes’s fictional house in Baker Street is now a museum.