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, author of The Appeal
'A true delight right up to its clever final reveal' PETER SWANSON, author of Kill Your Darlings
'One of the best crime novels I've read in years!' KELLY MULLEN, author of This is Not a Game
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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...
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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
'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

About the author

Arturo Pérez-Reverte is the internationally bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels, including The Club Dumas, The Queen of the South, and The Siege, which won the
International Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association. A retired war journalist, Pérez-Reverte is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

Product details

• Authors: Arturo Perez-Reverte, Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 12.02.2026
• EAN: 9781805466178
• ISBN: 978-1-80546-617-8
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Classic crime, Fiction in translation, Historical crime and mysteries, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Comic (humorous) crime and mystery, Comical (humorous) crime and mystery