The Baker Street Boys
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The Baker Street Boys
(Knight)
978-0340333006, RRP £1.25, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
Plot is everything in this T. V. spin-off, which presents two stories based on the recent serial. There's a statutory reference to Sherlock Holmes every other page or so, since this motley ragamuffin band of 6 boys (and girls!) are his unofficial investigators. Of the two melodramatic tales I think I marginally preferred the latter --- assassins with foreign names and accents, gelignite under railway bridges intended for visiting Archdukes etc. etc. However, there's not much to choose between them, neither plot can't be found elsewhere and characterisation does not rise above the stereotyped.

