Extraordinary Correspondence

Two unlikely flatmates.
One decade-old murder.
Can thinking like a fictional detective . . . solve a real crime?

Sycamore Bell is obsessed with the world’s greatest (fictional) detective, and loves his job: answering the letters that arrive addressed to his hero at his employer’s Baker Street address.

Then a young girl writes from Texas begging Sherlock Holmes to save her father from death row, and Sycamore is convinced he can help. He knows all of his hero’s techniques, and now he has a chance to put them to the test.

When the case (inevitably) goes disastrously wrong, his new flatmate, James Watson, faces a dilemma: is it really his job to rescue Sycamore, solve the murder and generally save the day?

'This is a book to lift the spirits! It's a quirky, funny take on Sherlock, with a delightful twist at the end. Totally joyous.' Ann Cleeves