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Books in Sherlock Files series

  • Missing Heir

    Tracy Barrett

    Paperback (Square Fish, Aug. 7, 2012)
    Xena and Xander have just learned that their shy classmate, Alice, is the heir to a royal throne! Then they discover that their ancestor, Sherlock Holmes, had his suspicions about the kidnapping and return of Alice's grandmother, the princess of Borogovia. Alice is to be crowned on her thirteenth birthday . . . but she goes missing days before the ceremony. Who would kidnap a princess? Where would they hide her in a city where Xena and Xander Holmes―and the police!―are looking for her? And then there's the biggest mystery of all: is Alice really the princess?
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  • The Beast of Blackslope

    Tracy Barrett

    Paperback (Square Fish, March 15, 2011)
    Xena and Xander have been looking forward to their vacation in the peaceful country village of Blackslope. But when a huge monster begins to terrorize the town, the young detectives are faced with a mystery that seems impossible to solve. Sherlock Holmes, Xena and Xander's famous ancestor, investigated the case of a horrible beast in Blackslope, but that was nearly a hundred years ago. It couldn't be the same creature after all this time―could it?
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  • Case That Time Forgot

    Tracy Barrett

    Paperback (Square Fish, Aug. 2, 2011)
    Xander's classmate Karim tells him about a famous amulet carved in the shape of Thoth, the Egyptian god of time. It was thought to be so powerful that it could turn back time one day every hundred years. And that day is in a week! The amulet disappeared from a London museum years ago. Xena and Xander's celebrated ancestor Sherlock Holmes tried to find it, but had no luck. The twins are on the case―and so are mysterious foes who are trying to thwart and perhaps even harm them! Can Xander and Xena track down what Sherlock Holmes could not? The Case That Time Forgot is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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  • The 100-Year-Old Secret: The Sherlock Files Book One

    Tracy Barrett

    Paperback (Square Fish, March 30, 2010)
    What if you inherited Sherlock Holmes's book of unsolved cases? Xena and Xander Holmes have just discovered they're related to Sherlock Holmes and have inherited his unsolved casebook! The siblings set out to solve the cases their famous ancestor couldn't, starting with the mystery of a prized painting that vanished more than a hundred years ago. Can two smart twenty-first-century kids succeed where Sherlock Holmes could not? Modern technology meets the classic detective story in The 100-Year-Old Secret, the first in Tracy Barrett's terrific new mystery series that will intrigue young sleuths everywhere!
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  • Sherlock: The Mind Palace: A Coloring Book Adventure

    Mike Collins

    Paperback (Harper Design, Nov. 3, 2015)
    The first official coloring book from the hit BBC series, filled with more than fifty intricate scenes and cast images from the showThe game is on . . .Sherlock: The Mind Palace is a unique celebration of the rich visual landscape of the BBC series Sherlock, featuring more than fifty intricate pieces of artwork by artist Mike Collins. Recreate classic scenes, add color to intricate interiors, and illuminate the fascinating world of Sherlock with the power of your imagination.A vital clue from each episode is hidden within the original black and white illustrations, and only by completing the scene can they be found. Fill Sherlock’s world with color and find the secrets hidden within The Mind Palace.
  • Sherlock: The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Gatiss

    Paperback (BBC Physical Audio, Sept. 1, 2014)
    The detective's triumphant return from the dead! With an introduction by Mark Gatiss.After his deadly plunge over Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes seemed gone forever—but, as mysteriously as he left, he returns three years later. Now he is reunited with Watson, and a host of thrilling new adventures through London's underworld awaits, battling thieves, kidnappers, and killers alike. But Holmes is about to meet his most despised villain yet: the dastardly Charles Augustus Milverton.
  • The 100-Year-Old Secret: The Sherlock Files Book One

    Tracy Barrett

    Hardcover (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), May 27, 2008)
    What if you inherited Sherlock Holmes's book of unsolved cases? Xena and Xander Holmes have just discovered they're related to Sherlock Holmes and have inherited his unsolved casebook! The siblings set out to solve the cases their famous ancestor couldn't, starting with the mystery of a prized painting that vanished more than a hundred years ago. Can two smart twenty-first-century kids succeed where Sherlock Holmes could not? Modern technology meets the classic detective story in The 100-Year-Old Secret, the first in Tracy Barrett's terrific new mystery series that will intrigue young sleuths everywhere!
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  • The Beast Of Blackslope

    Tracy Barrett

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, March 15, 2011)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister spending a year in England, use clues in their ancestor Sherlock Holmes' casebook as they try to solve the mystery of a monster threatening a peaceful country village where a documentary film is being made.
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  • Sherlock: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Gatiss

    Paperback (BBC Physical Audio, May 1, 2012)
    A Sherlock tie-in edition of Conan Doyle's first collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, with an introduction by show cocreator Mark GatissIn this new edition of Conan Doyle's first collection of short stories, Mark Gatiss explains how these gripping tales inspired and influenced the new series. This collection contains 12 short stories first published in the Strand magazine between 1891 and 1892, and then published as a collection in October 1892. It includes some of Conan Doyle's best tales of murder and mystery, such as "The Adventures of the Speckled Band," in which the strange last words of a dying woman "It was the band, the speckled band!" and an inexplicable whistling in the night are the only clues Sherlock Holmes has to prevent another murder; and "The Five Orange Pips," in which an untimely death and the discovery of the letter containing five orange pips lead to a cross-Atlantic conspiracy.
  • The 100-Year-Old Secret

    Tracy Barrett

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, March 30, 2010)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Xena and Xander Holmes think living in London will be boring. But one afternoon they're handed a cryptic note that leads them to a hidden room--and a secret society. When they discover they're related to Sherlock Holmes and hinherit his unsolved casebook, life becomes so much more exciting.
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  • The Case That Time Forgot

    Tracy Barrett

    Paperback (Square Fish, Aug. 2, 2011)
    Xander’s classmate Karim tells him about a famous amulet carved in the shape of Thoth, the Egyptian god of time. It was thought to be so powerful that it could turn back time one day every hundred years. And that day is in a week! The amulet disappeared from a London museum years ago. Xena and Xander’s celebrated ancestor Sherlock Holmes tried to find it, but had no luck. The twins are on the case—and so are mysterious foes who are trying to thwart and perhaps even harm them! Can Xander and Xena track down what Sherlock Holmes could not? The Case That Time Forgot is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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  • The Missing Heir

    Tracy Barrett

    Hardcover (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), June 7, 2011)
    Xena and Xander have just learned that their shy classmate, Alice, is the heir to a royal throne! Then they discover that their ancestor, Sherlock Holmes, had his suspicions about the kidnapping and return of Alice's grandmother, the princess of Borogovia. Alice is to be crowned on her thirteenth birthday . . . but she goes missing days before the ceremony. Who would kidnap a princess? Where would they hide her in a city where Xena and Xander Holmes—and the police!—are looking for her? And then there’s the biggest mystery of all: is Alice really the princess?
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