The Final Problem

A charming murder mystery from the internationally bestselling author for fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz, as well as classic tales by Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie _______________ 'The perfect murder mystery' JANICE HALLETT 'A true delight right up to its clever final reveal' PETER SWANSON 'One of the best crime novels I've read in years!' KELLY MULLEN _______________ To catch a killer, one must act the part. Arriving on the Greek island of Utakos, ageing actor Ormond Basil 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 on the silver screen, pressure him to solve the mystery. Yet even with Ormond's encyclopaedic knowledge of plots and killers, this case turns out to be anything but elementary... ___________________ Readers love The Final Problem! 'Brilliant' 'Will delight and intrigue' 'Wonderfully clever' 'A master storyteller' 'Ingenious' ___________________ Praise for Arturo Pérez-Reverte 'Gives murder a touch of class' Observer 'Spain's most popular, inventive writer of historical fiction' The Sunday Times 'A sophisticated and exciting intellectual game' Daily Telegraph 'To read him is to rediscover the delights of Dumas and Conan Doyle' The Times 'It's rare a novelist who can create a literary page turner. Pérez-Reverte is one of those rarities' Denver Post

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 film (The Ninth Gate) and The Siege received the 2014 CWA International Dagger.