Sherlock Holmes: The Empty House

This is another in the series of Sherlock Holmes stories (16 in the series) adapted for children by Alex Woolf, with Eve O’Brien’s delightful illustrations. Here, the famous story “The Adventure of the Empty House” is retold in a much simplified version, but this doesn’t harm the tale: it still mana......more

Alex Woolf retells one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories, “The Empty House,” illustrated by Eve O’Brien. Narrated by Sherlock Holmes’ partner Dr. Watson, “The Empty House” takes place three years after Holmes’ death at the hands of his arch enemy, James Moriarty. Watson is intrigu......more

"𝑫𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒔𝒐𝒏?" "𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒅𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒕 𝒖𝒑𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉." This series of classic Sherlock Holmes stories, adapted by Alex Woolf, serve as a wonderful introduction for younger readers of many ages to Holmes, Watson, and the adventures they have together. Each book is wr......more

Thank you so much to Arcturus and Netgalley for the ebook to read and review. This is a sequel book that joins up with a previous book, though you can read this as a stand-alone. If you’d read the previous story it would help a lot more to understand everything that takes place within this one. After......more

Here is another entry in a very good series of retellings of Sherlock Holmes stories for young readers. These are short chapter books that have cartoon like illustrations. They hold very true to the original stories but simplify them a bit for the younger child. This and the others may just inspire......more