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

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'The perfect murder mystery' JANICE HALLETT, bestselling author of The Appeal

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To catch a killer, one must act the part.





When ageing actor Ormond Basil arrives on the Greek island of Utakos he hopes only for a holiday and perhaps finally to shed the mantle of his most famous role: world-renowned sleuth Sherlock Holmes.





But when a body turns up in his hotel, the other guests, accustomed to seeing Ormond as the greatest detective of all time, pressure him to solve the mystery.





With Paco, a jaded writer of pulp detective fiction, he has his very own Watson at his side.





But even with their combined encyclopaedic knowledge of plots and killers, this case turns out to be anything but elementary...



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Praise for Arturo Pérez-Reverte





'Gives murder a touch of class' Observer



'Spain's most popular, inventive writer of historical fiction' The Sunday Times



'John Le Carré meets Gabriel García Márquez' Wall Street Journal



'It's rare a novelist who can create a literary page turner. Pérez-Reverte is one of those rarities' Denver Post



'High-level intrigue and double-dealing in the tradition of Alexandre Dumas' Los Angeles Times



Arturo Peréz-Reverte was born in Cartagena in 1951. Since the publication of The Fencing Master, his first novel, Pérez-Reverte has become one of Europe's bestselling authors. His books have been published in fifty countries and have sold over 27 million copies worldwide. His novel The Dumas Club was adapted into a filme (The Ninth Gate) and The Siege received the 2014 CWA International Dagger.



The perfect murder mystery to transport you to another time: 1960, another place: an idyllic Greek Island, and a brand new amateur sleuth in Ormond Basil, a 'resting' actor who once played Sherlock Holmes on screen, a role that means everyone expects him to solve a baffling murder... This is a fresh new classic that fans of the genre will LOVE. Like taking a warm bath in the best of the Golden Age!



A true feast for anyone who has ever enjoyed reading a detective novel



A canonical suspense novel, one that demands to be read without pause, becomes a tribute to fiction, a profoundly Cervantine book that places us at the crossroads where reality and invention intersect