Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Trigger Warning: The perfect funny secret Santa gift!

by Bruno Vincent

The greatest detective of all time has returned*! Meet an older, wiser and slightly more irritable Sherlock Holmes in a hilarious series of brand new mysteries as he pits his famously considerable wits against assassins, master-thieves, website cookie settings and a trigger warning of genuine terror . . .



*(again)

92 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 24, 2024

About the author

Bruno Vincent was a bookseller and book editor before he was an author. His humour books for grown-ups, co-authored with Jon Butler, were national bestsellers and have been translated into seven languages. The TUMBLEWATER books are his first for children.

Reviews

[Stephen Robert Collins · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a joke version of Holmes set in modern life and is very funny

[Kristine Booksandstuff123 · Rating 5 out of 5]

'Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Trigger Warning' by Bruno Vincent.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I love these Sherlock Holmes parodies. This is a good short story full of mystery and intrigue. Bernie is a fantastic side character who just tells you like it is. And what a great familiar location for the story 'Baskerville Hall'.
If you're a fan of mystery and Sherlock Holmes give these stories a read. Love the illustrations too.
Thanks to NetGallery UK, the publishers and the author for letting me read this in return for an honest review.

Holmes and Watson return to the site of their most famous case – and discover someone is hounding the Baskervilles!
Sherlock Holmes needs a holiday, so Dr Watson has taken him to Dartmoor, where they find a very changed Baskerville Hall. The gaunt, gothic mansion has gone: it’s now an eco-friendly, zero-waste yoga retreat.
But trouble is (cold-)brewing beneath the solar panels. Someone is stirring up hate against the supposedly “woke” agenda at Baskerville and is sending anonymous death threats, in the form of a gun’s trigger and the word ‘BEWARE’! Even worse, there are reports that the slathering hell-hound on the moor has returned!
Can Holmes and Watson negotiate the heightened emotions between different social media tribes, without getting themselves permanently cancelled – or even murdered*?

[The Book Squirrel · Rating 3 out of 5]

With a nod to Hound of the Baskervilles, I liked this one better than Mystery of the forgotten password.
There is a play on words where the "trigger warning" is both an offence and a literal gun trigger, so that was fun.
I like the original illustrations scattered throughout, although they don't always have much relevance to the story.

[Rose Stanley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Guessed whodunit fairly early on, but still a fun reimagining of the Hound of the Baskervilles. Steven Moffat's Sherlock could never.

[D L · Rating 4 out of 5]

Returning to Baskerville Hall only to find a yoga retreat, Sherlock and Watson are dragged into another mystery in Dartmoor. As they investigate the recent death threats targeting the infamous mansion our detectives have to deal with a potential new hound as well as all things apparently 'woke', which is stirring up the locals.
This is a fun parody of the modern world and our heroes, who seem to be lost in the modern world.