Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong (Book 1)

“The humour and camaraderie of the children, the robots and the lovable parents are reassuring, and makes you wish you could be part of the group in their next adventure.”
— Naomi Kojima, Japanese author and illustrator of The Alphabet Picture Book and Singing Shijimi Clams

“What’s not to love about a savvy kid with pluck, prepared to step outside humdrum routines to solve mysteries? Young readers everywhere dream of pushing limits in pursuit of adventure, and Sam is all the more appealing for his habit of running rings around grown-up buffoons. In Sherlock Sam, A.J. Low has conceived a series sure to have long-term appeal.”
— Ken Spillman, author of the Jake series

“From the first missing heirloom in Katong to this current cloaked classmate in MacRitchie, Sherlock Sam continues to captivate its readers. Definitely a middle-grade series that I would unreservedly recommend to teachers, parents, and fellow bibliogeeks. Science!”
— Myra Garces-Bacsal, PhD, National Institute of Education, Singapore

A.J. Low is a husband-and-wife writing team!

Adan Jimenez is a writer, translator, and prose, comics and localisation editor. He is the proud son of Mexican immigrant parents and became an immigrant himself when he moved to Singapore after living in New York for almost a decade. He has worked for comic book stores, bookstores, gaming stores and even a hoagie sandwich shop once. He loves comics, LEGO, books, games (analog and video), science fiction and food.

Born and raised in Singapore, Felicia Low-Jimenez has been a geek for most of her life. She studied anime and manga in school and has written a lot of fanfiction. She was a bookseller and now works in publishing. Her SFF short story, “Tiger Girls”, has been adapted into a webcomic series. She spends most of her free time reading, napping and listening to music on a loop.

Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong won the International School Libraries Network's Red Dot Award 2013-2014 in the Younger Readers’ category. Sherlock Sam and the Seafaring Scourge on Sentosa won the Best Young Person’s Title Award at the Singapore Book Awards 2021. The series has been nominated and has won numerous Popular Readers’ Choice Awards and has been translated and published around the world.

You can find them at aj-low.com, instagram at aj_low_writers, and sherlock.sam.sg@gmail.com.

Andrew Tan (aka Drewscape) is a freelance illustrator and adjunct art teacher based in Singapore. Monsters, Miracles & Mayonnaise is his first graphic novel, in which the story “Moving Forward” was nominated in the “Best Short Story” category at the 2013 Eisner Awards. He is also the author of The Ollie Comics: Diary of a First-Time Dad. His illustrations can be found in the kid detective series Sherlock Sam, as well as in magazines, print ads and picture books. See more of his work at drewscape.net and drewscape.blogspot.sg.