The Final Problem: The quarter-of-a-million-copy bestselling murder mystery inspired by Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie

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 _______________

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

'An elegant and engrossing puzzle. Murder mystery bliss!' KELLY MULLEN, author of This is Not a Game _______________

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

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Release date

Ebook: 12 February 2026