In The New Adventures of Old Sherlock a brandnew series Holmes and Watson return to the site of their most famous case and discover someone is hounding the BaskervillesHighly amusing Vincent revives the great detective putting Victorian values on a collision course with modern mores Lucien Young author of Alice in Brexitland Sherlock Holmes needs a holiday so Dr Watson has taken him to Dartmoor where they find a very changed Baskerville Hall The gaunt gothic mansion has gone its now an ecofriendly zerowaste yoga retreatBut trouble is coldbrewing beneath the solar panels Someone is stirring up hate against the supposedly quotwokequot agenda at Baskerville and is sending anonymous death threats in the form of a guns trigger and the word BEWARE Even worse there are reports that the slathering hellhound on the moor has returnedCan Holmes and Watson negotiate the heightened emotions between different social media tribes without getting themselves permanently cancelled or even murderedI mean looking at their track record yes is probably the answer but it will be fun finding out 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
