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Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud by Andrew Lane (view source)
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|comment=Many years ago, Mr. Lane, who went by the name of 'Andy' then, wrote a Doctor Who novel, entitled: 'All Consuming Fire', in which the seventh incarnation of the Doctor meets and joins forces with Holmes and Watson. This was a book that I have read many times, and so you can imagine my surprise and pleasure as I read 'Death Cloud' that Baron Maupertuis and his henchman Surd, who feature in 'All Consuming Fire', popped up in this new book. Maupertuis is not that great an adversary, but Surd is a wonderful creation, and I hope that he appears again. If you know 'All Consuming Fire', you will know that his scarred skull hides a truly disgusting secret, of the sort that young readers will find very, very cool indeed. I enjoyed 'Death Cloud', and read it in one sitting. Yes, I'm way older than the target audience, but I have loved anything Sherlock Holmes since I read 'The Red Headed League' and saw Billy Wilder's beautiful 'The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes', when I was nine years old. I'm pushing forty-seven now, and that love of the character, and his murky world, still has me in it's thrall. Yes, the book is very violent in places, but no more so than any of the 'Young James Bond' books, or Alan Gibson's 'Scared To Death' series. These are adventure books, and adventurers encounter violence. It should be shown, but not dwelt on, but it should show that it hurts, and is not to be encouraged. I look forward to further books in this series.
Ian Luck, Ipswich.
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