After the harrowing experience of losing his mother while solving a brutal murder in London’s East End, young Sherlock Holmes commits himself to fighting crime … and is soon involved in another case. While visiting his father at the magnificent Crystal Palace, Sherlock stops to watch a remarkable and dangerous trapeze performance high above, framed by the stunning glass ceiling of the legendary building. Suddenly, the troupe’s star is dropping, screaming and flailing, toward the floor. He lands with a sickening thud just a few feet away, and rolls up almost onto the boy’s boots. Unconscious and bleeding profusely, his body is grotesquely twisted. In the mayhem that follows, Sherlock notices something that no one else sees — something is amiss with the trapeze bar! He knows that foul play is afoot. What he doesn’t know is that his discovery will put him on a frightening, twisted trail that leads to an entire gang of notorious criminals. Wrapped in the fascinating world of Victorian entertainment, its dangerous performances, and London’s dark underworld, Death in the Air raises The Boy Sherlock Holmes to a whole new level.


在調查殘忍的倫敦東區謀殺案時，年輕的福爾摩斯經歷了喪母之痛，自此他立志打擊犯罪，不久後，福爾摩斯便遇上了另一樁案件。他到華麗的水晶宮拜訪父親，途中停下了腳步，欣賞空中飛人在這棟傳奇建築的玻璃天花板下表演，精彩非凡又驚險萬分。突然間，劇團的明星從空中墜落，在尖叫聲中揮舞著四肢，著地時的聲響令人作嘔。他摔下來時距離福爾摩斯不過數呎之距，幾乎滾到了福爾摩斯腳邊。劇團明星的身體扭曲成怪異的姿勢，血流如注，意識不清。一陣混亂之後，福爾摩斯發現了被其他人忽略的疑點：高空鞦韆的橫桿被動了手腳！他知道有人圖謀不軌，卻不知道自己即將因此踏上一條令人毛骨悚然的不歸路，必須面對一幫亡命之徒。《空中之死》融合維多利亞時期五光十色的演藝界、驚險的表演活動及倫敦的地下活動等元素，將《少年福爾摩斯系列》推向新的高峰。