Young Sherlock Holmes - Think you know him? Think again.

With the support of the Conan Doyle estate, Andrew Lane's series of novels featuring a teenage Sherlock can be seen as official accounts of the Great Detective's early years. Although aimed at young adult readers, the books are always a corking good read as the fourteen-year old Sherlock and his friends, street boy Matty, the feisty Virginia, his elder brother Mycroft and his tutors, Amyus Crowe, the big American logician and, Rufus Stone, his Irish violin teacher, face terrific puzzles and dreadful terrors.

1. Death Cloud

Two dead bodies. One unforgettable. The beginning of a legend.

The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer’s son: boarding school, good manners, a classical education – the backbone of the British Empire. But all that is about to change. With his father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously ‘unwell’, Sherlock is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire. So begins a summer that leads Sherlock to uncover his first murder, a kidnap, corruption and a brilliantly sinister villain of exquisitely malign intent.

A dead man walking. A scarred face. A crime that shattered a country.

Sherlock knows that adults keep secrets. But he didn’t expect to find the world’s most famous assassin, apparently living in Surrey when he’s meant to be dead – and his own brother somehow involved.
When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for yourself. So begins an adventure that will lead Sherlock to America, to the centre of a deadly web – where life and death are cheap, and truth has a price no sane person would pay

Sherlock believes his brother is innocent. But can he prove it?

The year is 1868 and fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes faces his most baffling mystery yet. Mycroft, his older brother, has been found with a knife in his hand, locked in a room with a corpse. Only Sherlock believes that his brother is innocent. But can he prove it?
In a chase that will take him to Moscow and back, Sherlock must discover who has framed Mycroft and why…before Mycroft swings at the gallows.

The next cracking instalment in this brilliant book series is out soon, entitled:

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