The Final Problem: The literary locked-room murder mystery from the bestselling author

For fans of The White Lotus, Anthony Horowitz and Benjamin Stevenson, a tricksy murder mystery from the internationally bestselling author _______________

Greece, 1960. Rough weather at sea leaves a group of strangers stranded on the idyllic island of Utakos, all guests of the only local hotel.

Nothing could prepare them for what happens next: Edith Mander, a quiet British tourist, is found dead inside the beach cabana.

At first it appears to be a clear suicide, but Ormond Basil, an out-of-work actor best-known for playing Sherlock Holmes in his glory days, suspects foul play.

Accustomed to seeing Ormond as the greatest detective of all time on the big screen, the other guests enlist him to solve the mystery. But can he do it before the killer strikes again?

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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

'John Le Carré meets Gabriel García Márquez' Wall Street Journal

'It's rare a novelist who can create a literary page turner. Pérez-Reverte is one of those rarities' Denver Post

'High-level intrigue and double-dealing in the tradition of Alexandre Dumas' Los Angeles Times

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Release date

E-bog: 12. februar 2026