I have a general interest in the Talmud and how it is studied in yeshivot. However, my Aramaic and Hebrew are basic and I cannot read Rashi script. I recently enjoyed a book called The Talmud: A Biography by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, a Reform Rabbi, which I found particularly interesting because it takes the reader through a sugya, but then also considered Rashi, Rif and Tosefot on that sugya, thereby giving a taste of what it is like to study Gemara with traditional commentaries.
I should be grateful if anyone knows of and could recommend any other books in English (ideally from a more orthodox perspective), that take a reader through one or two sugyot in this way with the traditional commentaries, showing how they are interpreted and how they lead to a final decision on halakhah.
Many thanks.