What Child is This?: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Adventure (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure

It’s the season of peace and goodwill, but a Victorian Christmas is no holiday for the world’s most popular detective in this new book from Bonnie MacBird, author of the bestselling Sherlock Holmes novel Art in the Blood.

It’s Christmastime in London, and Sherlock Holmes takes on two cases. The angelic three-year-old child of a wealthy couple is the target of a vicious kidnapper, and a country aristocrat worries that his handsome, favourite son has mysteriously vanished from his London pied à terre. Holmes and Watson, aided by the colourful Heffie O’Malley, slip slide in the ice to ensure a merry Christmas is had by nearly everybody . . .

• A new Sherlock Holmes for Christmas, beautifully packaged and illustrated by world-famous Marvel and DC comic book artist Frank Cho.

• Fifth in the series of authentic Conan Doyle-style Holmes & Watson novels, with Bonnie MacBird’s previous Sherlock books selling in 20 languages.

• Sherlock Holmes voted the public’s favourite detective in 2020’s ITV poll of detective characters – bigger than Poirot,Marple and Morse.

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