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Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the F
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Bruno Vincent
46 books41 followersBruno 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.
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January 4, 2025
Sherlock Holmes is at last on the spectrum. Or should that be Spectrum – for he has finally caught up with 1980s home gaming. Boom tish. And despite having a meerschaum vape he's not fully up to modern times, hence him needing to have cryptocurrency explained to him, as well as the character of the local tech billionaire and entrepreneur and wannabe brain-chipper. Who – just when he has set up an appointment with Holmes and Watson – has gone missing. Now, the game is not on a C90 cassette – for it is afoot.
With not one but three books at once, this is a new series from a bloke who has done well out of spinning modern riffs on the Famous Five already. It's quite the slender but quite the fitting affair, with olde timey Paget illustrations given new captions for the yucks, contrasting nicely with the feeling of Holmes closing in on senility, and losing his attacking verve. It isn't brilliant – the jokes slip away for the second half to concentrate on the actual mystery, and perhaps three books are going to look like overkill with the "wow, isn't 2025 different from 1895?!" mindset. Two of the three feature the same quip involving punctuation pedantry. But as a small frippery they're perfectly acceptable, and nicely entwined in the original canon stories.
With not one but three books at once, this is a new series from a bloke who has done well out of spinning modern riffs on the Famous Five already. It's quite the slender but quite the fitting affair, with olde timey Paget illustrations given new captions for the yucks, contrasting nicely with the feeling of Holmes closing in on senility, and losing his attacking verve. It isn't brilliant – the jokes slip away for the second half to concentrate on the actual mystery, and perhaps three books are going to look like overkill with the "wow, isn't 2025 different from 1895?!" mindset. Two of the three feature the same quip involving punctuation pedantry. But as a small frippery they're perfectly acceptable, and nicely entwined in the original canon stories.
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