Characters
Sherlock Holmes
A brilliant 14 year old who is a loner but longs for friendship. He is attending Deepdene School for Boys (boarding school) and because of his father's sudden orders to ship off to India, his is required to stay with his aunt and uncle in Farnham. When he starts his holiday, he is a naive young man, but through the series of events that occur in the book Holmes matures and is changed profoundly, he has faced death, found love and defeated evil. In terms of his relationships, he idolises his older brother Mycroft, he likes Matty, has developed feelings for Virginia, and is intrigued by Crowe. -
Mycroft Holmes
Sherlock's older brother, works in London, and over the course of the book it becomes obvious that he is an extremely powerful individual in espionage circles.
Matty Arnatt
He has no mother or father and lives by his wits, finding or stealing food where he can and travelling along the English canals in his barge. He is fascinated by Sherlock and a true friendship ended up being formed.
Amyus Crowe
An American hunter and tracker who is a highly unusual tutor preferring to focus on practical learning. He is described as a large man with white hair and a large beard. He is doing undercover work in Britain tracking down American Civil War criminals.
Virginia Crowe
Amyus Crowe's daughter, unhappy with England because of a negative experience she and her father experienced on the way to the United Kingdom, is a free-spirited, outspoken girl. She is described to be a red-haired lass with violet eyes, tanned skin, and freckles. She is an excellent horseback rider.
Mrs. Eglantine
Mrs. Eglantine is the housekeeper of Holmes Manor, she is slightly sinister and does not welcome new guests. Mycroft Holmes told Sherlock in a letter, that she is "no friend to the Holmes family".
Baron Maupertuis
The Baron is the mastermind behind the mystery of the Death Cloud, and because of serious injuries sustained by him at the Charge of the Light Brigade his locomotion is achieved in a unique way, akin to a puppet (his servants control strings attached to his limbs).
Background
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. When the series was first in development, the title of Death Cloud was initially to be called either The Colossal Schemes of Baron Maupertuis or Sherlock Holmes and the Shadow of the Marionette.The Colossal Schemes of Baron Maupertuis is an adventure mentioned in "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire". Maupertuis had already appeared as a character in Lane's Doctor Who/Sherlock Holmes crossover novel, All-Consuming Fire.
One of Andy 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.
Young Sherlock Holmes - Death Cloud
by Andrew Lane
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud is the first novel in the Young Sherlock Holmes series that depicts Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes as a teenager in the 1860s. It was written by Andy Lane and released in the UK on June 4, 2010.
Sherlock Holmes is sent to live with his unknown aunt and uncle in Holmes Manor in Hampshire over his school holidays when his father is unexpectedly sent overseas with the British Army. He cannot go home as his mother is unwell, and cannot go to London as his older brother Mycroft is busy working for the government. Wandering around the estate and the surrounding countryside he soon befriends a boy his own age named Matty Arnatt (who has witnessed an unusual death involving a cloud of death).
After a few days of holidays Sherlock discovers that his brother Mycroft has hired him an unusual American tutor named Amyus Crowe. During their first lesson together Sherlock finds a dead body on the Holmes' estate and witnesses the same death cloud surrounding the body that Matty had previously seen. He detects a yellow powdery substance around the body and takes a sample of it.
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Young Sherlock Holmes-Red Leech
by Andy Lane
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Red Leech (U.S. edition title: Rebel Fire is the second novel in the Young Sherlock Holmes series that depicts Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes as a teenager in the 1860s. It was written by Andy Lane and released in the UK on 5 November 2010 by Macmillan Books. It is a sequel to Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud and was followed by Young Sherlock Holmes: Black Ice which was released on 26 May 2011.
A few months following the events of Death Cloud, Sherlock Holmes is pleased when Mycroft comes to visit him at Holmes Manor in Hampshire, but Mycroft's visit has a serious purpose, he has come to let Amyus Crowe know that British Intelligence suspect that John Wilkes Booth has come to England under the alias to John St. Helen. Without any encouragement from Mycroft or Amyus, Sherlock sets off to Godalming where Booth is suspected of hiding out, enlisting Matty Arnatt's help along the way.
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Young Sherlock Holmes - Black Ice
by Andrew Lane
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Mycroft Holmes invites Sherlock and his tutor, Amyus Crowe, to London for a visit. When they arrive at the Diogenes Club they find Mycroft holding a dagger over a dead body. The police arrive soon and arrest Mycroft, leaving Sherlock and Amyus to prove his innocence. They find some clues at the murder scene; a business card, a small bottle with a clear liquid in it, and a small wooden case. They determine that the business card is freshly printed and look for printers around London who might have created it.
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Fire Storm (Young Sherlock Holmes)
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by Andy Lane
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Fourteen-year-old Sherlock has come up against some challenges in his
time, but what confronts him now is completely baffling. His tutor,
Crowe, and Crowe's daughter, Ginny, have vanished. Their house looks
as if nobody has ever lived there. Neighbours claim never to have
heard of them. Sherlock begins to doubt his sanity, until a chance
clue points him to Scotland. Following that clue leads him into the
throes of a mystery that involves kidnapping, bodysnatchers and a man
who claims he can raise the dead. Before he knows it, Sherlock is
fighting for his life as he battles to discover what has happened to
his his friends.
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