Sherlock Holmes and the Scarlet Thread [A Novel by Michael Chambers]

The first novel in the 'Sherlock Holmes: Thailand' mystery thriller series by Michael Chambers.

Sherlock Holmes and the Scarlet Thread is the first novel in the Sherlock Holmes: Thailand mystery thriller series. Each novel is a standalone mystery.

All 10 chapters of this novel will be published digitally: subscribers get a new chapter every Wednesday, for free.

You can read the first chapter here.

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What’s the story?

Sherlock Holmes: Thailand is the mystery thriller series that reimagines Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in modern Bangkok.

This first novel, Sherlock Holmes and the Scarlet Thread, tells the origin story of Holmes and Watson— reimagining the iconic events from Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet.

Sherlock Holmes left London ten years ago. He’s 29 now and spent the last decade living out of a backpack, traveling the world while perfecting his skills of observation and deduction.

Dr. Watson was shot ten months ago. The half-Thai/English former soldier is in Bangkok recovering from his battlefield injuries when tragedy strikes: the most important thing he owns is stolen from him.

Desperate for help, Watson turns to a mysterious foreigner that locals call the wizard. The man he meets is unlike anyone he’s ever encountered. Ten years on the road have turned Sherlock Holmes into something of a legend, solving the unsolvable from country to country.

But Thailand is different.

Beneath the neon lights and crowded streets of Bangkok, a darker mystery waits to be uncovered. What begins as a simple theft spirals into something far more sinister— a trail of deception, murder, and secrets that stretches across the city.