The Sherlock Effect

Christopher Sherlock Webster spent his schooldays desperately trying to live down his embarrassing middle name, gifted to him by his Holmes-obsessed father. But after his dad's death, Christopher finds he has inherited the same obsession...

Teaming up with pal Mo Rennie, he starts an agency called Baskerville's, specialising in the application of rigorous Holmesian method. Here are five bizarre adventures from the files, featuring a young beautician stalked by a stranger; a disappearing science journalist; a pornographer who receives death threats; a star's boyfriend who is kidnapped twice and a millionaire widower who meets Miss Perfect—or is she?