Rhondda
I have just finished reading the first in the Young Sherlock Holmes series Death Cloud by Andrew Lane. I have always loved the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and have also collected all the movie and television adaptations over the years.
This first in a new series of books is a good adventure story set in Victorian England. It does not matter if you have not read Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, this one works fine on its own.
Death Cloud is a fast-paced, interesting and easy to read story that should appeal to many YA readers. We have a unit on the crime genre and I have converted a few boys into Sherlock Holmes readers. This story and the other stories I have been reading recently, the Tim Pigott-Smith stories about the Baker Street Irregulars (First mentioned by Arthur Conan Doyle in the Study In Scarlet) are a good addition to the Sherlock Holmes section of the library.
Filed under: literature, Reading Tagged: | Andrew Lane, crime genre, Young Sherlock Holmes
