The Baker Street Four, Volume 1

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On other titles, Stéphan Roelants’ Luxembourg-based Melusine Productions has signed on to co-produce coming of age action-adventure movie “The Nazis, My Father and Me,” set in 1941 New York City. All based in London, in the first story the children solve the crime of a missing young girl who is kidnapped from the streets. The story tracks the Baker Street Irregulars as they pursue different cases, growing by the day as young detectives and as friends. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). I really appreciated that while this graphic novel takes place in the world of Sherlock Holmes, he doesn't really appear that much; the focus instead is on three street urchins who sometimes act as Holmes' eyes and ears on the streets.

And nothing can prepare them for the news from Reichenbach Falls: Sherlock Holmes, the renowned detective and mentor of the three friends, has perished.The junior detective team finds itself in a secret war against the former associates of Professor Moriarty, and a series of twists and dangerous pitfalls leads to a terrible tragedy. These two tales are far more adventure-focused than mystery-focused and are reminiscent of a mix of Dickens and possibly Enid Blyton adventure stories. In 2009, he coauthored The Baker Street Four with Jean-Blaise Djian, a series that has quickly become a must-have in the detective genre, along with The Later Argonauts and Prospero.

Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Hailed by critics and audiences, The Baker Street Four series has received numerous awards and was featured in Angoulême in 2012.Smith wrote that this shows that Holmes "realised the value of reliable assistants and was humble enough to look for them in places where others of his status might have never deigned to tread". B. Dijan with art by David Etien has two separate stories featuring a trio of young street kids (with a cat to make four) who sometimes help out Sherlock Holmes. Along the way, they unexpectedly add a fourth member to the team and ultimately become the youngest detectives of the Victorian era!