Новинки Эндрю Лейна

James Willaker has been working late. He's tired. It's been a long day. All that awaits now is a taxi home before bed.

Conversations with taxi drivers are a factor of London commutes, indeed of every city.

They can't have any importance. They can't change the world. They can't affect the future.

Can they?

‘Hello, sweetie!’

Melody Pond, Melody Malone, River Song…She has had many names. Whoever she really is, this archaeologist and time traveller has had more adventures (and got into more trouble) than most people in the universe.

And she’s written a lot of it down. Well, when you’re married to a Time Lord (or possibly not), you have to keep track of what you did and when. Especially as it may not actually have happened to both of you yet.

These are just a few of River Song’s exploits, extracted from her journals. Sometimes, she is with the Doctor. Sometimes she’s on her own. But wherever and whenever she may be, she is never far from danger and excitement.

This is just a tiny portion of her impossible life. But it will reveal more than you’ve ever known about the legend that is River Song.

Sherlock's mother has died, his father has disappeared in India and his sister is acting strangely. The Holmes family seems to be falling apart, and not even brother Mycroft can keep it together. But while Sherlock is worrying about all of this, a man living nearby vanishes in his own house while Sherlock and Mycroft are visiting. Where did he go, and what is the connection with a massive canal being built in Egypt? The answer will rock the world, and tear the Holmes family apart!

Лето 1868 года. Шерлоку Холмсу четырнадцать лет. Он вынужден провести каникулы в имении своих родственников и уверен, что впереди его ждут очень скучные летние месяцы. Но неожиданно двое местных жителей умирают от загадочной болезни, похожей на чуму, и Шерлок оказывается в самой гуще опасных и загадочных событий. Выяснив, что смерть этих людей была насильственной, юный Холмс начинает расследование и раскрывает дьявольский преступный замысел. Теперь ему предстоит вступить в поединок с опасным и хитрым злодеем, лелеющим чудовищные планы.

Death Cloud is the first in the Young Sherlock Holmes series in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant, troubled and engaging teenager - creating unputdownable detective adventures that remain true to the spirit of the 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.

Вашему вниманию предлагается комплект из 4 книг серии "Молодой Шерлок Холмс".

Kidnapped and taken to China, Sherlock finds himself plunged into adventure. How can three men be bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai? Who wants them dead, and why? The answer seems to lie in a message hidden in a diagram that looks like a spider's web. But solving it leads to an even more urgent question: what has all this got to do with a plot to blow up an American warship? Sherlock is about to brave terrors greater than any he has faced before... Sherlock Holmes. Think you know him? Think again.

The year is 1868, and fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes faces his most baffling mystery yet. Mycroft, his older brother, has been found with a knife in his hand, locked in a room with a corpse. Only Sherlock believes that his brother is innocent. But can he prove it? In a chase that will take him to Moscow and back, Sherlock must discover who has framed Mycroft and why ...before Mycroft swings at the gallows. Young Sherlock Holmes is a series of novels in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant, troubled and engaging teenager - creating unputdownable detective adventures that remain true to the spirit of the original books.

Following his last thrilling adventure Sherlock Holmes has been sent to live in Oxford to focus on his education. But something strange is happening in the university pathology labs. Body parts are being stolen from corpses and are being posted one by one to an address in Wales. What can these sinister goings-on mean, and what message is someone trying to send? In an attempt to find out, Sherlock travels to Wales and finds himself in an isolated manor house where strange things have been happening. Can he get to the bottom of another baffling mystery? Sherlock Holmes: think you know him? Think again.

Sherlock Holmes knows that adults keep secrets. But he didn't expect to find the world's most famous assassin living in Surrey when he's meant to be dead. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk everything to discover it for yourself. So begins an adventure that will lead Sherlock to America, to the centre of a deadly web - where life and death are cheap, and truth has a price no sane person would pay...

In Fire Storm by Andrew Lane, young Sherlock's friend and her father have vanished. Their house looks as if nobody has ever lived in it; the neighbors claim never to have heard of them. Sherlock begins to doubt his sanity, until a clever clue points him to Scotland. Following that clue leads him into a mystery that involves kidnapping, bodysnatchers, and a man who claims he can raise the dead. Only the budding detective Sherlock can untangle the mind-bending - and dangerous - puzzles that ensnare his friends. Think you know Sherlock Holmes? Think again!

Young Sherlock Holmes is in Ireland to solve his sixth intriguing mystery Something sinister is afoot in the house in the west of Ireland in which Sherlock is staying. There are frightened whisperings among the servants and the house's owners are clearly scared. But who - or what? - has terrified them so much that nobody will speak out? Young Sherlock must bring all his powers of deduction to unravelling his greatest mystery yet. Another fast-paced, brilliantly plotted adventure as teenage Sherlock investigates a new crime and comes up against a fresh crop of sinister, clever criminals.

Young Sherlock Holmes is back to solve his fifth amazing adventure. Kidnapped and taken to China, Sherlock finds himself plunged into mystery. How can three men be bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai? Who wants them dead, and why? The answer seems to lie in a message hidden in a diagram like a spider's web. But solving it leads to an even more urgent question: what has all this got to do with a plot to blow up an American warship? Sherlock is about to brave terrors greater than any he has faced before... Sherlock Holmes: think you know him? Think again.

Шерлок Холмс в замешательстве: его подруга и ее отец исчезают, не оставив никаких следов. Даже зацепиться не за что. Остается только распутывать эту нить, последовательно разбирая события и разгадывая все более и более мрачные тайны - похищения детей, дьявольские секреты жизни и воскрешения, мертвых... Куда еще заведет Шерлока жажда расследования? В туманную и призрачную Шотландию, на границы разума, к бушующему зареву огня...

Young Sherlock Holmes 4: Fire Storm

Kidnapped and taken to China, Sherlock finds himself plunged into adventure. How can three men be bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai? Who wants them dead, and why? The answer seems to lie in a message hidden in a diagram like a spider’s web. But solving it leads to an even more urgent question: what has all this got to do with a plot to blow up an American warship? Sherlock is about to brave terrors greater than any he has faced before . . .

Sherlock Holmes: think you know him? Think again.

Когда Майкрофта Холмса застают с ножом в руке над мертвым телом, никто не сомневается в его виновности. Кроме его брата Шерлока. Эта загадка и захватывающий поиск доказательств вынуждают молодого Шерлока Холмса отправиться из Лондона в Москву. Но сумеет ли он раскрыть правду и найти истинного преступника, чтобы спасти своего брата от виселицы?

Юный Шерлок Холмс знает, что у взрослых есть свои секреты. Но он и подумать не мог, что один из известнейших в мире наемных убийц, официально признанный погибшим, на самом деле жив и скрывается в Суррее и что к этому каким-то образом причастен его родной брат Майкрофт. Когда никто не говорит тебе правду, приходится рискнуть, чтобы узнать ее самому. Так начинается приключение, которое приведет Шерлока в Америку - в самый центр смертельно опасной паутины, где жизнь не стоит ни гроша, а истина имеет такую цену, которую не согласится заплатить ни один разумный человек.

Лето 1868 года. Шерлоку Холмсу четырнадцать лет. Он вынужден провести каникулы в имении своих родственников и уверен, что впереди его ждут очень скучные летние месяцы. Но неожиданно двое местных жителей умирают от загадочной болезни, похожей на чуму, и Шерлок оказывается в самой гуще опасных и загадочных событий. Выяснив, что смерть этих людей была насильственной, юный Холмс начинает расследование и раскрывает дьявольский преступный замысел. Теперь ему предстоит вступить в поединок с опасным и хитрым злодеем, лелеющим чудовищные планы.