What do you suppose Sherlock Holmes was like as a fourteen-year old boy? Do you think even then he had the steel-trap mind and powers of deduction that made the inscrutable detective a curse to all criminals?
You'll find out as you follow Holmes as he discovers his first body and confronts his first diabolical villain!
With his father posted to India and his mother
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ill, young Holmes is sent to stay with relatives he has never met, his eccentric aunt and uncle who live at the huge Farnham Manor in Hampshire. The young boy is lonely, conflicted, and thinks far too much. To keep him occupied and out of trouble, they hire a clever American tutor, Amyus Crowe, who is accompanied by his beautiful daughter, Virginia.
When a scrappy orphan, Matty, discovers a horrible body covered by boils and Holmes
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