The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfect
ly ordinary army officer's son: boarding school, good manners, a classical educa
tion - the backbone of the British Empire. But all that is about to change.
W
ith his father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously 'unwell', S
herlock 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 in
tent ...Death Cloud is the first in a series of novels in which the iconic detec
tive is reimagined as a brilliant, troubled and engaging teenager - creating unp
utdownable detective adventures that remain true to the spirit of the original b
ooks.
