In the second thrilling installment to the Improbable Tales of Baskerville Hall series, Arthur returns to the elusive Baskerville Hall and must solve the mystery behind a poisoned Sherlock Holmes, facing new threats, harrowing challenges, and ghastly ghouls along the way. It’s time for a new adventure; are you ready?

When Arthur Conan Doyle returns to Baskerville Hall, a secretive school for extraordinary students, he’s excited to begin winter term with the friends he loves. However, soon after his arrival, a dangerous foe threatens his favorite professor, Sherlock Holmes, and all signs seem to point to a force that Arthur had hoped he’d seen the last of…the Green Knight. But Sherlock isn’t the only target; others begin to fall prey as well. The question is: How are they all connected?

In the ultimate race against time, Arthur will have to dodge old enemies, befriend new faces, and brave encounters with spirits to solve the mystery before it’s too late. But there are more puzzles to solve than one; it seems a new term at Baskerville Hall may test not only Arthur’s wits…but his friendships too.

Arthur Doyle returns to Baskerville Hall for his second term at the school. He is eager to see his friends - Jimmie, Irene, Pockets and Grover - and find out which specialty class he will be assigned to at the end of term. But soon after he arrives, Sherlock Holmes is taken mysteriously ill, followed quickly by two more professors and Arthur and his friends must determine who the culprit is with a leading suspect being the Green Knight whom Arthur suspects is  Jimmie’s father, Mr Moriarty.

Baskerville Hall is a delightfully different private school in an alternate steampunky fantasy version of Arthur Doyle’s childhood.  We have ghosts, and Frankenstein-like experiments, and mysterious poisonings.  Young readers will enjoy the adventures Arthur and his friends get into in solving the mystery of who poisoned the professors and why,  while older readers will enjoy that many of the characters’ names show up in Doyle’s real world fiction - Sherlock Holmes, Mrs Hudson, Dr Watson, Challenger, and, of course, the infamous villain Moriarty. I am enjoying this series and look forward to the next installment. Highly recommended ~~ Stephanie L Bannon

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