Boy Sherlock Holmes Books in Order

Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes is poor, brilliant, and already marked as an outsider in 1867 London. When he starts investigating a Whitechapel murder, he discovers the accused man may be innocent and soon finds himself suspected as well.

While visiting the Crystal Palace, Sherlock sees a famed trapeze artist plunge to the floor and notices the bar has been tampered with. Still reeling from loss, he follows the case into Victorian London's rough underworld.

A wealthy girl vanishes in Hyde Park, and Sherlock is soon racing to solve the case before an innocent boy pays the price. The mystery stretches beyond London and tests both his judgment and his fragile bond with Irene Doyle.

When Beatrice claims that Spring-Heeled Jack attacked on Westminster Bridge and carried off her friend, Sherlock first doubts her story. Soon London is gripped by fear, and Sherlock is pulled into a chase full of paranoia, suspects, and sudden violence.

At Irene Doyle's birthday outing, Sherlock watches a magician make a dragon appear, then sees the performer arrested for murdering his rival. Convinced the case is not that simple, he follows the clues into a world of illusion, jealousy, and backstage danger.

Now nearly seventeen, Sherlock is isolated, grieving, and running low on reasons to care, until Mycroft reveals that Malefactor is moving to infiltrate the British government. The final case pushes Sherlock toward the choices that will turn him into Holmes.