We discover that Sherlock’s middle name is Scott (at least I’ve never come across that before) and amongst many other references which Sherlockians will recognise there is a Mycroft who is already putting on weight and who says “I don’t know everything yet”.
Unlike the 1985 film “Young Sherlock Holmes” which includes a young Watson (although David Marcum has written this interesting piece which explains who that boy really was) there are no obvious contradictions to the canon. Sherlock and his new tutor, Amyus Crowe, discover a similar corpse in the woods around Holmes Manor, and he determines to solve the mystery of the cloud of death. He strikes up an acquaintance with Matty Arnatt, an orphan of the same age, who has witnessed a mysterious cloud leaving a house where a man has just died, his body covered with boils. All the world knows Sherlock Holmes – the man that is – but what lead a Victorian boy to become the original consulting detective? This question is what Andrew Lane attempts to unravel across a series of eight books beginning with this one.įourteen year-old Sherlock Holmes is glad to be leaving Deepdene School for Boys for the holidays but instead of returning home he is packed off to stay with an unknown Uncle Sherrinford and Aunt Anna.
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