The Final Problem

For fans of Anthony Horowitz and Benjamin Stevenson, as well as classic tales by Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, a charming murder mystery from the internationally bestselling author<BR>_______________<BR><BR>'The perfect murder mystery' JANICE HALLETT, author of The Appeal<BR>'A true delight right up to its clever final reveal' PETER SWANSON, author of Kill Your Darlings<BR>'One of the best crime novels I've read in years!' KELLY MULLEN, author of This is Not a Game<BR>_______________<BR><BR>To catch a killer, one must act the part.<BR><BR>Arriving on the Greek island of Utakos, ageing actor Ormond Basil hopes only for a holiday and perhaps finally to shed the mantle of his most famous role: world-renowned sleuth, Sherlock Holmes.<BR><BR>But when a body turns up in his hotel, the other guests, accustomed to seeing Ormond as the greatest detective of all time on the silver screen, pressure him to solve the mystery.<BR><BR>Yet even with Ormond's encyclopaedic knowledge of plots and killers, this case turns out to be anything but elementary...<BR>___________________<BR><BR>Praise for Arturo Pérez-Reverte<BR><BR>'Gives murder a touch of class' Observer<BR>'Spain's most popular, inventive writer of historical fiction' The Sunday Times<BR>'A sophisticated and exciting intellectual game' Daily Telegraph<BR>'To read him is to rediscover the delights of Dumas and Conan Doyle' The Times<BR>'It's rare a novelist who can create a literary page turner. Pérez-Reverte is one of those rarities' Denver Post