The Final Problem

This jolly meta-mystery will appeal to anyone who shares Holmes’s abhorrence of “the dull routine of existence” * The Times *A delicious Sherlockian divertissement * Financial Times *Wonderfully erudite and entertaining. A novel to savour in all its ingenious ways. * Crime Time *A witty offering that laughs at its own premise. A literary novel that strikes a beautiful chord with anyone who loves the Golden Age of mysteries. It’s a heck of a lot of fun. * Historical Novel Society *A finely calibrated homage to the golden age of mystery * Irish Times *Lovers of old films, traditional locked room mysteries and Sherlock Holmes will revel in the cunning setup and elegant execution of Pérez-Reverte’s The Final Problem which pays homage to all those things… a meta-delight * New York Times *Pérez-Reverte delights in the plot’s meta conceit without letting it overwhelm the ingenious core mystery. This is a gift to whodunit fans. * Publishers Weekly *A sly love letter to the immortal detective, his creator, and the golden age of cinema. * Kirkus *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! – Janice Hallett, author of THE APPEALThe Final Problem is a brilliantly devised meta-mystery, a concoction of old Hollywood glamour with a high-body-count murder mystery. A true delight right up to its clever final reveal – Peter Swanson, author of KILL YOUR DARLINGSOne of the best crime novels I’ve read in years. An elegant and engrossing puzzle. Murder mystery bliss! – Kelly Mullen, author of THIS IS NOT A GAMEA true feast for anyone who has ever enjoyed reading a detective novel * La Vanguardia *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 * El Espagnol *

Arturo Perez-Reverte was born in Cartagena in 1951. Since the publication of The Fencing Master, his first novel, Perez-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.