Sherlock Holmes and the Air Fryer of Doom

The New Adventures of Old Sherlock is a brand-new series that follows Holmes and Watson as they solve a murderous case during Christmas in London. They must catch a villain who is stealing back cultural artefacts from museums and using an air fryer of demonic power to prepare a Christmas dinner. The series is highly amusing and combines Victorian values with modern mores.

Format: Hardback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 24 October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

In The New Adventures of Old Sherlock, a brand-new series, it's Christmas at Baker Street, and Holmes is obsessed with his most fiendish of unsolved cases: someone is murdering Santas across London! Highly amusing. Vincent revives the great detective, putting Victorian values on a collision course with modern mores. Lucien Young, author of Alice in Brexitland, says: "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, says: "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."

As Holmes and Watson struggle through the Christmas-shopping crowds, they must catch this most dastardly and un-Christmassy of villains, while sneakily trying to purchase each other's Christmas presents (they are in the world's least-secret Secret Santa, after all). Meanwhile, with the museums of London refusing to return cultural artefacts to their countries of origin, someone is taking matters into their own hands and stealing back what was stolen. Are the cases connected, and could an ancient air fryer of demonic power hold the key to the mystery of the murdered Santas? And more importantly, can you prepare a whole Christmas dinner in an air fryer*?

*Whether you can or not, Dr. Watson's going to give it a jolly good try. Ho Ho Holmes!

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, says: "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."

Weight: 186g
Dimension: 134 x 205 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241721445