Death cloud
β Scribed by Andrew Lane
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 159 KB
- Edition
- 1st American ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
It is the summer of 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. On break from boarding school, he is staying with eccentric strangersβhis uncle and auntβin their vast house in Hampshire. When two local people die from symptoms that resemble the plague, Holmes begins to investigate what really killed them, helped by his new tutor, an American named Amyus Crowe. So begins Sherlockβs true education in detection, as he discovers the dastardly crimes of a brilliantly sinister villain of exquisitely malign intent. Β
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