- Amyus Crowe et sa fille Virginia ont disparu. En fouillant les environs, Sherlock et Matty découvrent une charade morbide dans laquelle il est question d'Édimbourg.
- Les deux garçons filent en Écosse. Crowe se terre dans une maisonnette isolée au sommet d'un mont rocheux.
- À sa poursuite, MacFarlane une brute épaisse qui trempe dans tous les trafics illégaux : racket, combats mortels d'hommes ou d'animaux, attentats, intimidation, traite de cadavres, une activité lucrative à une époque où les médecins apprenaient l'anatomie par la dissection.
- Ses pouvoirs de déduction permettent à Sherlock d'aider ses amis et de retrouver celle qu'il aime, Virginia.

Young Sherlock Holmes is back for his fourth exciting adventure. Sherlock Holmes: think you know him? Think again.

Action adventure from the bestselling author of Young Sherlock Holmes

The world's most famous detective. The most brilliant mind in fiction. But before he became the great detective, who was young Sherlock Holmes? The sixth book in a series of mystery adventures featuring a teenage Sherlock and endorsed by the Conan Doyle Estate.

The world's most famous detective. The most brilliant mind in fiction. But before he became the great detective, who was young Sherlock Holmes?

The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer's son: boarding school, good manners, a classical education - the backbone of the British Empire. But all that is about to change.

Sherlock knows that Amyus Crow, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn't expect to find a notorious killer, hanged by the US government, apparently alive and well in Surrey - and Crow somehow mixed up in it. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for yourself.

Young Sherlock Holmes is back in his fifth exciting mystery. Now available in paperback

The first in a bang-up-to-the-minute new series from the bestselling author of Young Sherlock Holmes.