Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Forgotten Password by Bruno... 9780241721483

In The New Adventures of Old Sherlock a brandnew series Sherlock Holmes is feeling like an analogue detective in a digital worldHighly amusing Vincent revives the great detective putting Victorian values on a collision course with modern mores Lucien Young author of Alice in Brexitland The worlds richest and most obnoxious Tech Bro freshly decamped to the English countryside has invited Sherlock Holmes to visit and vanished before Holmes gets there Did he intend for the Great Detective to investigate his disappearanceDr Watson is alarmed that Sherlock Holmes is growing forgetful He can hardly remember why he came into a room and keeps misplacing things Is he finally losing his memory Or is all a ruse to engage a villain who may or may not be a piece of malevolent AI And while were talking about things being decrypted could Holmess supposedly deceased adversary Moriarty be behind it allOnly Sherlock Holmes can save the day and of course Watson if he can recall where he wrote down his damned list of passwordsTheyve got to be somewhere This is a clever as parody gets How Bruno Vincent has managed to maintain a Holmesian atmosphere with a machine gun gag rate is a mystery in itself Wonderful stuff Ian Moore bestselling author of Death and Croissants