this was a fun little palate cleanser of a book, supper faced paced and i really enjoyed the storyline. It kept me guessing till the very end. 100% recommend if you’re looking for a faced paced book that will have u hooked!

Sherlock Holmes is at last on the spectrum. Or should that be Spectrum – for he has finally caught up with 1980s home gaming. Boom tish. And despite having a meerschaum vape he's not fully up to modern times, hence him needing to have cryptocurrency explained to him, as well as the character of the local tech billionaire and entrepreneur and wannabe brain-chipper. Who – just when he has set up an appointment with Holmes and Watson – has gone missing. Now, the game is not on a C90 cassette – for it is afoot.

With not one but three books at once, this is a new series from a bloke who has done well out of spinning modern riffs on the Famous Five already. It's quite the slender but quite the fitting affair, with olde timey Paget illustrations given new captions for the yucks, contrasting nicely with the feeling of Holmes closing in on senility, and losing his attacking verve. It isn't brilliant – the jokes slip away for the second half to concentrate on the actual mystery, and perhaps three books are going to look like overkill with the "wow, isn't 2025 different from 1895?!" mindset. Two of the three feature the same quip involving punctuation pedantry. But as a small frippery they're perfectly acceptable, and nicely entwined in the original canon stories.

This is an enjoyable parody of Sherlock Holmes and all things currently going on in the world. The renowned detective and Watson are invited to the countryside by the arrogantly rich Igor Glebe, CEO of the world's largest medical technology company, only for the billionaire to vanish before our two heroes arrive.
Read within a couple of hours, Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Forgotten Password is an enjoyable way to spend the afternoon.

'Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Forgotten Password' by Bruno Vincent.
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I really enjoyed this modern version of Sherlock Holmes. It was a funny quick read and it did keep me guessing till the end. Very enjoyable.

In The New Adventures of Old Sherlock, a brand-new series, Sherlock Holmes is feeling like an analogue detective in a digital world!
The world’s richest and most obnoxious Tech Bro (freshly decamped to the English countryside) has invited Sherlock Holmes to visit … and vanished before Holmes gets there! Did he intend for the Great Detective to investigate his disappearance?
Dr Watson is alarmed that Sherlock Holmes is growing forgetful. He can hardly remember why he came into a room, and keeps misplacing things. Is he finally losing his memory? Or is all a ruse, to engage a villain who may or may not be a piece of malevolent AI? And while we’re talking about things being de-crypted, could Holmes’s supposedly deceased adversary Moriarty be behind it all?
Only Sherlock Holmes can save the day – and of course Watson, if he can recall where he wrote down his damned list of passwords*!
*They’ve got to be somewhere…