BookTrade.info reported yesterday that Macmillan Children's Books has acquired the exclusive world rights to a new series featuring a young Sherlock Holmes. To be written by Andrew Lane and with the cooperation of the Estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the first of the three books in the series is expected to be published in Spring 2010.
"I wanted this to be as authentic as possible, trying to imagine the boy who might become the famous man," Lane said. "It's a great privilege to be authorised by the Estate to re-imagine Sherlock Holmes."
Rebecca McNally, children's fiction publishing director at Macmillan, added, "Andy's written a completely gripping thriller which takes the world's most famous detective and turns him into an utterly convincing, psychologically complex, flawed, clever fourteen-year-old boy."
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