Phoenix is self-harming, suicidal and sectioned. She has visions in which Sherlock Holmes tells her she can be a great detective. Hers is a story of murder, detection, and hope in a seemingly hopeless world. When else has a group of people, considered the dregs of society, become superheroes? This is the first chapter of the, as yet, unpublished crime novel 'Phoenix: The Delusional Detective’.