SUMMARY: Sherlock knows that Amyus Crow, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn't expect to find a notorious killer, hanged by the US government, apparently alive and well in Surrey - and Crow somehow mixed up in it. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you hav
Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud
โ Scribed by Andrew Lane
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 189 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
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...The Death Cloud is the first in a series of novels in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant, troubled and engaging teenager ' creating unputdownable detective adventures that remain true to the spirit of the original books.
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