Bad Company Level 2 Elementary/Lower-intermediate

by Richard MacAndrew

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd is called to investigate the murder of a young woman on a beach on the south coast of England. The young woman was one of a group of workers from a music company who are staying at a nearby hotel. Inspector Shepherd and her new sergeant Webb question the other workers to find out who had a motive for murder. More than one has, so which one is the murderer and how did they do it? Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CD including complete text recordings from the book.

48 pages, Paperback

First published March 24, 2011

Reviews

[Janete on hiatus due health issues · Rating 4 out of 5]

4,5 stars. Text + Audio. I'm doing my best to improve my English.
Synopsis: "Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd is called to investigate the murder of a young woman on a beach on the south coast of England. The young woman was one of a group of workers from a music company who are staying at a nearby hotel. Shepherd and her new sergeant Webb question the other workers to find out who had a motive for murder. More than one has, so which one is the murderer and how did they do it?"

[Dada Vuk-Mil · Rating 3 out of 5]

... So light so easy ...

[İlknur]

Yes

[Ryoji · Rating 2 out of 5]

CAMBRIGE
level2
85minute
sbrgeant/detective/uncomfortable/jacket/Golf club/laptop/murder

Q.Do you want to be detector?
A.No, I don't. I can't think such a flexible.

Opinion
They are genious and nice combination. If she or he tried to solve that accident, maybe they can't solve that accident. Especially Sheperd is genious. She is not just detective. she is real genious. I wanna be genious like her.

[Kayo Nakagaki · Rating 2 out of 5]

1. Cambridge level2
2. 4/30 90minutes
3. dead, detective, inspector, murder, sea, sergeant, body
4. ”There's a body on the beach.”
It was so surprised for me.
5. It was so difficult for me. Because there are many characters. I couldn't understand everyone. And it uses a lot of unkown vocabularies. I thought the book is about bad company, because title is ”bad company”. But the story is about murder. It was so surprised.

[Sayaka · Rating 3 out of 5]

1 level 2 oxford
2 9/6=30 minutes; 9/8=70 minutes.
3 detective, police, musicians, inspector, sergeant, constable, MMI
4 a: He probably wants me to say, "Well done," she thought.
b: I can understand what he feels. I think everyone wants to get praise.
5 A detective inspector and a detective sergeant know how to work as a team. The inspector is especially clever.
There were many people in this book so it was difficult to remenber them for me.

[Yurika Tokoro · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cambridge/ level 2
10/22 = 40 minutes

detective/ dead/ company/ murder/ hotel/ hate/ suspects

"Three weeks without cigarette - not bad."
The main character Helen says it after she sees the woman's dead body at the beach. Even though she is in a unhealthy bad situation after seeing the dead body, it shows me something in a positive way. Like she is expecting what will happen next.

It is a good story, and seems like there are series of the book. I will try to find it!

[Momoko Fujigaki · Rating 4 out of 5]

5/26=10min,5/27=60min

[Pedro Porras ruiz]

Good!

[Ryota · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a bit like Agatha Christie.