Penguin Readers, 1995. — 32 pages.The Emperor Napoleon gives Brigadier Gerard a very important letter and tells him to take it to Paris. But there are German and Russian soldiers in France and it is very difficult to get to Paris.
Gerard meets German soldiers, and they try to catch him. Then Gerard meets a Russian soldier - but why does he take this man’s uniform?
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930) was a doctor. He started writing when he was 20, and wrote 60 books.
In 1887 he wrote A Study in Scarlet, his first book with Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective, in it.
He wrote his Brigadier Gerard books in 1896 (The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard) and 1903 (Adventures of Gerard).
