In Book 1 of The Schoolboy Sherlock Holmes we met Nicholas Twit who is almost 11, an only child who has become a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes and turned his bedroom into a replica of the sitting-room at 221B Baker Street. There’s a drawing of the layout of his room in this book.
In Book 2 Nick had become a detective working for the elderly couple next door—Mr and Mrs Basket and their agency called Basket Case Investigations. Nick thinks he’ll solve serious mysteries but the Baskets only work with lost cats and overturned bins yet somehow Nick’s small cases become really big and serious.
Nick’s new partner is Felicity Heywood-Jones who is 13. So there are two detectives—Holmes and Watson. But will they co-operate? And is Watson smarter than Holmes? In Book 2 Nicholas investigates a mystery about garden gnomes. It reminds him of a famous mystery solved by Sherlock Holmes. Felicity meets a girl who works from home and is being ripped off by a cruel person. Can Felicity help the girl and expose a nasty businessman? Strangely Nick’s gnomes and Felicity’s rip-off are linked. But how? Then Nicholas goes for a weekend trip to the country where he meets a ghost and an escaped convict. It all happens in an old gold-mining town where people go jogging in the middle of the night and some even hide in the town’s cemetery. Nick uses Sherlock’s methods to crack the cases.
Plus there are Sherlockian snippets, Twit Speak, anagrams and even a mini mystery.
In Book 2 Nick had become a detective working for the elderly couple next door—Mr and Mrs Basket and their agency called Basket Case Investigations. Nick thinks he’ll solve serious mysteries but the Baskets only work with lost cats and overturned bins yet somehow Nick’s small cases become really big and serious.
Nick’s new partner is Felicity Heywood-Jones who is 13. So there are two detectives—Holmes and Watson. But will they co-operate? And is Watson smarter than Holmes? In Book 2 Nicholas investigates a mystery about garden gnomes. It reminds him of a famous mystery solved by Sherlock Holmes. Felicity meets a girl who works from home and is being ripped off by a cruel person. Can Felicity help the girl and expose a nasty businessman? Strangely Nick’s gnomes and Felicity’s rip-off are linked. But how? Then Nicholas goes for a weekend trip to the country where he meets a ghost and an escaped convict. It all happens in an old gold-mining town where people go jogging in the middle of the night and some even hide in the town’s cemetery. Nick uses Sherlock’s methods to crack the cases.
Plus there are Sherlockian snippets, Twit Speak, anagrams and even a mini mystery.
