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Автор: Jennifer Bassett
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Серия: Level 1
Жанр произведения: Зарубежная образовательная литература
Год издания: 2012
isbn: 9780194630207
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      SHIRLEY HOMES AND THE LITHUANIAN CASE

      You can find private investigators like Shirley Homes anywhere in the world. Put the words ‘private investigator’ into a Google search on the internet, and you get more than 6,800,000 hits.

      Private investigators do all kinds of detective jobs. Perhaps they look for information about a person … Is that their real name? Where do they live? Where did they live before that? How old are they? Do they really have a university degree from Harvard, USA? Perhaps the job is watching somebody … Where do they go? Who do they meet? What do they talk about? Perhaps a business is losing money, but nobody understands why. A private investigator can listen and watch, day and night, and find an answer.

      So what is the Lithuanian Case? It is a missing persons case. There is a missing daughter, Carrie Williams, aged fifteen. There is a new boyfriend, from Lithuania. There is a crying mother, there is an angry father, there is an unhappy little brother.

      Carrie left her family home in London five weeks ago. Carrie’s mother wants Shirley Homes to find her. Shirley knows London very well – but she also understands people …

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