Young Sherlock Holmes: Knife Edge
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| Author | Andrew Lane |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller, Spy fiction |
| Publisher | Macmillan Books (UK) |
| Published | 4 June 2010 – Ongoing |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) Audiobook |
| Website | www |
Young Sherlock Holmes is a series of young adult Thriller novels by British author Andrew Lane featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes as a teenager in the 1860s and 70s that is faced with numerous mysteries, crimes and adventures throughout the books.
So far there have been eight books released in the series, with the eighth book released in September 2015.
Based on the success of Charlie Higson's bestselling Young Bond series, the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle authorised a series of books detailing the life of the teenage Sherlock Holmes'.
One of Andrew Lane's key aims is to explain some of the complexities of Holmes' character, who is scientific and analytical on the one hand, and artistic and moody on the other. Two new characters introduced in this series, his two tutors, Amyus Crowe and Rufus Stone, will help shed light on the formation of the two sides of his character evident in later life.
Further titles in the series may include;
Chicago Tribune gave Death Cloud a positive review stating:
For a reader who has outgrown the Hardy Boys' adventures but still seeks mystery-solving plots, Andrew Lane's invention of a teenage Sherlock Holmes will seem timely.
Graham Moore, author of The Sherlockian, reviewed Death Cloud for The New York Times and stated:
Lane is attempting a curious feat: to update and adapt Sherlock Holmes for a new generation, much the way Guy Ritchie has done with a swashbuckling Sherlock on screen....Yet, in the end, the novel strives to rescue Holmes from the prejudices of his creator, and thereby expand the pool of Holmes devotees. For that we can all be grateful.
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