holmes, sherlock (fictitious character)

Holmes is approached by the beautiful Beatrice to help locate her friend who was abducted by the evil Spring Heeled Jack on Westminster Bridge.

In broad daylight, a high society girl vanishes on a crowded street. Days pass, then weeks; the daring abduction remains an impenetrable mystery, without a ransom note, a single clue, or even public information. The moment young Sherlock reads about it, he knows that it's the case that will make his name.

Young Sherlock Holmes, committed to solving crimes after his mother's death, is visiting his father at work when an aerialist, practicing a high-trapeze performance at the legendary Crystal Palace, falls to the ground, landing at Holmes' feet, and uttering two cryptic last words that send the boy on a dangerous search for answers.

After losing his father, and the removal of the object of his affections, Irene Doyle, to America, young Sherlock Holmes seeks the help of his brother Mycroft to put an end to the villainy of his enemy the Malefactor.

Desperate to prove himself as a master detective, young Sherlock Holmes searches the countryside, coast, and other haunted locals of Victorian England to recover the young socialite who vanished from Hyde Park.

In 1867, Sherlock Holmes, an impoverished young outcast with a Jewish father and a highborn mother, visits the scene of a woman's brutal murder, where he meets a wrongly accused young Arab and becomes a suspect himself.

Young Sherlock Holmes helps his friend, Irene, celebrate her sixteenth birthday in the summer of 1869 by taking her to see the latest sensation to hit London--the magician, Alistair Hemsworth, promises to make a real dragon appear on stage--but before the act, Hemsworth is arrested for the murder of his rival, and though he has motive, Sherlock is not convinced he is guilty.

Includes an introduction, numerous illustrations, and many marginal notes explaining or commenting on the text.

In London, 1890, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to stop the fine arts dealer Edmund Carstairs from being harassed only to find themselves mixed up in murder plots and an international conspiracy linking the worst criminals to the highest levels of government.