By Andrew Lane (author) Part of the The Young Sherlock Holmes Series series
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Sherlock Holmes as a boy continues to delight in this latest adventure about the things that influenced him before he became the world’s greatest detective. This time, Sherlock is kidnapped, drugged and sent on a long sailing trip across the sea to China. While there he inevitably gets involved in a slippery case of detection involving snakes which needs to be solve quickly if an American warship is to be saved. Can Sherlock rise to the challenge?
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...
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Andrew Lane is an author, journalist and lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan. He lives in Hampshire with his wife and son. Andrew’s passion for the original novels of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and his determination to create an authentic teenage Sherlock Holmes, made him the perfect choice to work with the Conan Doyle Estate to reinvent the world’s most famous detective in this new series.
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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?
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Young Sherlock Holmes 5: Snake Bite and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
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Young Sherlock Holmes 5: Snake Bite was written by Andrew Lane and published by Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Young Sherlock Holmes 5: Snake Bite has 311 pages
Yes it is part of The Young Sherlock Holmes Series series
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