Young Sherlock Holmes_ Death Cloud - Andrew Lane [101]
I promise that there will be more adventures of Sherlock Holmes at school and university, but in the meantime you might want to seek out the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The short stories have been collected together in five books – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Final Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. The novels are A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear. If you want to go further, you could do worse than seek out the three more recent Holmes novels by Nicholas Meyer – The Seven Per Cent Solution, The West End Horror and The Canary Trainer – as well as Michael Hardwick’s The Revenge of the Hound and Lyndsay Faye’s Dust and Shadow. You might also like to check out Michael Kurland’s stories told from the point of view of Sherlock Holmes’s arch-enemy, Professor James Moriarty, which provide a refreshing alternative look at the Great Detective – The Infernal Device, Death by Gaslight and The Great Game. Second-hand bookshops or eBay might be your best bet.
Until next time, when Sherlock faces the repulsive Red Leech . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrew Lane is the author of some twenty previous books. Some are original novels set in the same universes as the BBC TV programmes Doctor Who, Torchwood and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), some are contemporary novels written under a pseudonym, and some are non-fiction books concerning specific film and TV programme characters (notably James Bond, and Wallace and Gromit). He has also written for the Radio Times and its US equivalent, TV Guide. Andrew lives in Dorset with his wife, his son and a vast collection of Sherlock Holmes books, the purchase of which over the past twenty years is now a justifiably tax-deductible expense.
Dedicated to the memory of the Young Adult writers whose work I used to devour when I was young: Capt. W. E. Johns, Hugh Walters, Andre Norton, Malcolm Saville, Alan E. Norse and John Christopher; and also to the friendship and support of those members of the latest generation that I’m fortunate enough to know: Ben Jeapes, Stephen Cole, Justin Richards, Gus Smith and the incomparable Charlie Higson.
And with grateful acknowledgements to:
Rebecca McNally and Robert Kirby, for having faith; Jon Lellenberg, Charles Foley and Andrea Plunkett, for giving permission; Gareth Pugh, for telling me all about bees; and Nigel McCreary, for keeping me sane on the journey.
First published 2010 by Macmillan Children’s Books
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