Coming in 2027:
Extraordinary Correspondence
I’ve written a novel! You’ll be able to read it!
For 100 years, the London & Bombay Bank has stood at 210-230 Baker Street. And for all that time, letters have arrived there for Sherlock Holmes. Answering them is a full-time job, and the latest person to do it is Sycamore Bell, obsessive fan of the world’s greatest (fictional) detective. Baffled by all this is his sceptical new flatmate, James Watson.
Sycamore’s job is to explain politely to anyone who writes in that Mr Holmes has retired. But when he gets a letter asking for Holmes’s help investigating a murder in Texas, he wonders if there might be something he can do. He knows all of his hero’s techniques, and now he has a chance to put them to the test.
But Sycamore is no Sherlock, and his efforts to solve the case quickly go disastrously wrong. On the run from the police and the mob, Sycamore and Watson have to find the murderer and prove that they are (mostly) innocent, before the killer can catch them.