Death Cloud is the first in the Young Sherlock Holmes series in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant, troubled and curious teenager � creating unputdownable mystery adventures that remain true to the spirit of Arthur Conan Doyle's original books. 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. With his father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously �unwell�, Sherlock is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire. So begins a summer that leads Sherlock to uncover his first murder, a kidnap, corruption and a brilliantly sinister villain of exquisitely malign intent . . . Sherlock Holmes. Think you know him? Think again.