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Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud

by Andrew Lane

Ages 11–13 Reading age 11 Novel Set in the past adventurousthoughtful

Left with relatives for the summer of 1868, fourteen-year-old Sherlock investigates two deaths in the village and a cloud seen leaving each body.

A story about children and a grown-up villain, adventurous and thoughtful in tone. We would put it with children of 11–13, and at a reading age of about 11 for reading alone.

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