A schoolboy detective! 10 year-old Nicholas Twit is a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes. Nick solves mysteries reported in glossy, illustrated, soft-cover books suitable for readers aged 8 to 80.

Holmes lived about 100 years ago but Nicholas is alive today.

The Twit books have mysteries, new words called Twit-Speak, illustrations, puzzles and tit-bits about Sherlock Holmes called Sherlockian Snippets.

In 1905 Mr Holmes had Dr Watson to help solve mysteries. In 2005 Nicholas works with his own Dr Watson - Felicity Heywood-Jones, 13, bossy and clever.

Nicholas collects material about Sherlock Holmes. Nick’s room is like the Sherlockian room in Baker Street, London with chairs, slippers, a violin, newspapers and desks.  There's a hidden door, a curtained-off area and a hi-tech digital workstation. Impressive. See it all in the detailed picture of Nick's bedroom in Book 2. It's strange and wonderful. You see, Nick's nuts about the world’s greatest detective.

Some kids don’t know what they want to do when they grow up. Nicholas Twit not only knows he wants to be a detective, he actually gets to be one. Now, while he’s still a kid at school.

The mysteries, pictures and word games are in the books. The extra bits are on this web page. Click a link and have fun!

If you like mysteries, puzzles, puns and adventures, you'll enjoy matching wits with Nicholas Twit, the schoolboy Sherlock Holmes.

HOW TO BE A DETECTIVE

How To Be A Detective is a booklet with tips, ideas and information. The rules, your equipment, famous cases and sayings of Sherlock Holmes, how to crack codes, learn the Twit Code, the police alphabet, simple things to do with forensic science, how to be a better detective, how to solve mysteries. Take it with you when you become a detective!