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I had a quick read last night - started and already finished Death Cloud by Andrew Lane, first in his "Young Sherlock Holmes" series.
As a historical kids' mystery/adventure, I thought it pretty good. I enjoyed it; I felt it had good pacing and a good amount of educational information sprinkled into the text without it becoming overbearing. A good, rather original plot, too.
My only (but not so small) problem was that I felt the likeable, personable, nice, interested-in-pretty-girls lad who went by the name of Sherlock Holmes, brother of Mycroft, and was taught to deduce stuff by his American mentor, was ... well, interpretations of what Sherlock Holmes the detective would have been like as a teen will obviously differ and no one can really claim to be "right" there, but this was an interpretation that didn't quite work for me. I can't claim to be extremely familiar with "canon" Holmes, but without the name, it would never have occurred to me who the character was supposed to be.
Other than that, I think it'd be a book that many of its target group (pre-teen and younger teen boys, mostly, but also girls who are into action/adventure mysteries) would enjoy it quite a lot.
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