Boys Like Mysterious Stories Mr. Melville Dale, Jimmy’s uncle in America, often sent books and magazines to his niece and nephew. Polly liked the magazines very much. There were lots of pictures there. Jimmy liked the books. They were full of interesting and thrilling stories. Uncle Melville always read detective stories and bought lots of them. All the boys in the neighbourhood liked them, as well as Jimmy, Sam and Hugh, and they knew almost all of them by heart. Their favourite writer was Conan Doyle who wrote about his friend Sherlock Holmes, a famous detective...