Dans la tête de Sherlock Holmes #1

From Cyril Lieron and Benoît Dahan, adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this French-language Ankama release opens L'Affaire du Ticket Scandaleux with one of the most inventive covers you'll find in the genre. The illustration renders Holmes's silhouette as a cross-section of a vast Victorian library — a lone figure climbing a ladder to reach a cabinet labeled "Crime" — while Big Ben, rooftops, chimneys, and a crescent moon frame the misty London skyline beyond, and a giant meerschaum pipe billows smoke to one side. It's a wonderfully clever visual metaphor for the great detective's mind, and a thoroughly atmospheric invitation into what promises to be a sharp, beautifully crafted mystery.