History Literature / YoungSherlockHolmes

* ForegoneConclusion: While ''Night Break'' ends with Sherlock [[spoiler:losing his trust in Mycroft]], the original canon still shows that the relationship between the Holmes brothers is amicable as seen in "The Greek Interpreter" and Mycroft is the only one who knew that Sherlock survived his fight against Professor Moriarty in Reichenbach Falls.

* LeftHanging: ''Night Break'', the eighth and final book, ends with Sherlock, [[spoiler:being disillusioned that his brother and his mentors don't care about him but resolve to go to India to find his father]]. In the afterword, Andrew Lane plans to continue the story but he implied that the publishers won't let him. Thus, young Sherlock Holmes' story ends with a {[Cliffhanger}}.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Virginia Crowe, the teenage Holmes' love interest, is a redhead. Whenever he thinks of her, one of the first things to come to his mind is her cascade of red hair.

* WhipItGood: Mr Surd, TheDragon to Baron Maupertuis in ''Death Cloud'', uses a metal-tipped whip as his preferred weapon and is an expert in its use. He is capable of pinpoint accuracy, doing such acts as deliberately missing Sherlock's eye by millimetres.

Based on the success of Charlie Higson's bestselling ''Literature/YoungBond'' series, the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle authorised a series of books detailing the life of the teenage Sherlock Holmes'.

* BeeAfraid: In ''Death Cloud'', the BigBad uses swarms of weaponized killer bees as {{Animal Assassin}}s.

* EvilAlbino: Baron Maupertuis, the BigBad of ''Death Cloud''. Also an EvilCripple.
* EvilCripple: Baron Maupertuis, the BigBad of ''Death Cloud''. Accidentally trampled by British troops during the Charge of the Light Brigade, he was left paralysed from the waist down by a broken spine. He employs servants to move him around like a human puppet. Also an EvilAlbino.

* AristocratsAreEvil: Baron Maupertuis, the BigBad of ''Death Cloud'', is an EvilAlbino and EvilCripple, who is driven by a fanatical hatred of England and who plans to murder hundreds of thousands of British troops.

* TheRemnant: In ''Red Leech'', Duke Balthasar is the self-appointed head of the 'Government in Exile of the Confederacy', and plans to rise to conquer Canada and transform it into a new Confederated States of America.

* BathroomBreakout: In ''Red Leech'', Matty's kidnappers let him of the train to use the toilet while one of them watches the door. Holmes breaks through the rotted back wall of the wooden outhouse to help him escape.

* DeathFakedForYou: In ''Red Leech", John Wilkes Booth had an unknown confederate with him in the barn who died on the fusillade of Union shots and whose body was burned beyond recognition in the subsequent. It was assumed that his body was Booth's.

* WindowPain: When Matty is kidnapped in ''Red Leech'', the kidnappers throw a large rock with a note tied to it through Crowe's window. The note says that if Crowe leaves them alone for three months, Matty will be released unharmed.

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# ''Death Cloud''
# ''Red Leech'' (a.k.a. ''Rebel Fire'')
# ''Black Ice''
# ''Fire Storm''
# ''Snake Bite''
# ''Knife Edge''
# ''Stone Cold''
# ''Night Break''

* TheDogBitesBack: In ''Red Leech'', the BigBad Duke Balthassar has a pair of cougars that he uses as {{Right Hand Attack Dog}}s: having semi-trained through a combination of fear and cruelty. Sherlock is able to turn them against Balthassar by giving them a taste for his blood (by feeding them the eponymous red leech) at a point when he is in a weakened position. Blathassar falls off a cliff attempting to escape them.