The year is 1868, & Sherlock Holmes is 14. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer's son: boarding school, good manners, a classical education. But all that is about to change. With his father suddenly posted to India, & his mother 'unwell', Sherlock is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle & aunt in their vast house in Hampshire.
De jonge Sherlock Holmes Reeks
Deze serie volgt de vroege onderzoeken van een legendarische detective tijdens zijn vormende jaren. Lezers worden uitgenodigd getuige te zijn van de oorsprong van zijn ongeëvenaarde deductieve vaardigheden door middel van spannende mysteries en avontuurlijke escapades. Elke aflevering biedt een inkijkje in de complexe zaken die de briljante jonge geest vormden, voorbestemd voor grootsheid. Het is een boeiende reis naar de oorsprong van een ware meesterdetective.
Aanbevolen leesvolgorde
Red Leech
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- 13 uur lezen
Once Sherlock was an ordinary teenager. Now life will never be the same again. And when his tutor Amyus Crowe is summoned urgently to America, Sherlock leaves his old life behind completely.
Young Sherlock Holmes: Black Ice
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- 11 uur lezen
The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is 14. The young detective has travelled to America to unravel a deadly mystery, but now he faces his most dangerous mission yet. Mycroft, Sherlock's older brother, has suddenly vanished. Discovering that he has headed to Russia, Sherlock has no choice but to follow his trail.
Young Sherlock. Fire Storm
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- 13 uur lezen
Sherlock Holmes's friend and her father have vanished. Their house looks as if nobody has ever lived in it. A clever clue points Sherlock to Scotland. He is lead into a mystery that involves kidnapping, bodysnatchers and a man who claims he can raise the dead. Before he knows it, Sherlock is fighting for his life as he begins to work out out what has happened to his friends. Will he be fast enough to save them?
Young Sherlock Holmes - Snake Bite
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- 12 uur lezen
Kidnapped and taken to China, Sherlock finds himself plunged into adventure. How can three men be bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai? Who wants them dead, and why? The answer seems to lie in a message hidden in a diagram like a spider's web.
Something sinister is afoot in the house in the west of Ireland in which Sherlock is staying. There are frightened whisperings among the servants and the house's owners are clearly scared. But who - or what - has terrified them so much that nobody will speak out? Young Sherlock must bring all his powers of deduction to unravelling his greatest mystery yet.
Young Sherlock - Stone Cold
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- 12 uur lezen
Stone Cold is the seventh in the Young Sherlock Holmes series 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. Following his last thrilling adventure Sherlock Holmes has been sent to live in Oxford to focus on his education. But something strange is happening in the university pathology labs. Body parts are being stolen from corpses and are being posted one by one to an address in London. What can these sinister goings-on mean, and what message is someone trying to send? In an attempt to find out, Sherlock follows the trail to a very sinister house deep in the countryside. Can he get to the bottom of another baffling mystery? Sherlock Holmes: think you know him? Think again. Continue the investigative adventures with Andrew Lane's Night Break.
Young Sherlock: Night Break
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- 11 uur lezen
Sherlock's mother has died, his father has disappeared in India and his sister is acting strangely. The Holmes family seems to be falling apart, and not even brother Mycroft can keep it together. But while Sherlock is worrying about all of this, a man living nearby vanishes in his own house while Sherlock and Mycroft are visiting. Where did he go, and what is the connection with a massive canal being built in Egypt? The answer will rock the world, and tear the Holmes family apart!
