Orlando Pearson

"A Case of Identity" saw Holmes unmask some matters involving James Windibank which the Baker Street detective dismissed as trite. By contrast "The Camberwell Tyrant" is the most gothic of the Redacted Sherlock Holmes stories. Louis Westhouse, Windibank's employer, commissions Holmes to...

It is 1909, and 20 years have passed since the great Devon adventure. Holmes is consulted by Sir Henry Baskerville’s son after a shepherd in the baronet’s clothes is found dead at the foot of a cliff. Watson is dispatched to Dartmoor to investigate and finds that the publication of his novel...

Why is Britain Great? Could it be because in charge for many years was Mycroft Holmes, the only man in history more intelligent than Sherlock Holmes?

Arthur Conan Doyle wrote fifty-six short works about Sherlock Holmes. With this book of eight tales Orlando Pearson joins him on this number. In Volume X of The Redacted Sherlock Holmes, the Great Baker Street Detective busts two city scandals, engages with three great composers and three kings...

Orlando Pearson takes up his pen once more to give us six more accounts of how Sherlock Holmes altered the course of history. - Alma takes Holmes and Watson to Vienna where they meet a famous musician and his famous wife; - The Tsar, the Pince-Nez, and the Six-Foot Scowl is the final resolution...

In this volume we see what it is when one extraordinarily talented person is the British Government as Mycroft Holmes applies his skills in statecraft to tax evasion, royal honors, Partygate, the 1918 Armistice, and the Abdication crisis of 1936.

Why is Ignatius Foley, member of parliament for Perth, so anxious to retrieve some administrative documents that have fallen out of his pocket at his fiancée’s house? His betrothed, Jean Leckie, wants to find out. And what has happened in Bulgaria that makes Mycroft so anxious to dispatch his...

Two kings, a model, a traitor, two wombats, two poets, an accountant, more lobbyists than you can count, three titans of business, two artists, a pawnbroker…and Sherlock Holmes. Orlando Pearson presents them all in the latest addition to the acclaimed Redacted Sherlock Holmes series. "The Poet...

How do you make a government change its mind? And how do you recover your financial equilibrium after a bereavement? And, come to that, how do you recover your financial equilibrium after you return from the apparent dead when you have asked for no mention of your return be made in the press and...

Watson spends half his wound pension on the turf and his gambling addiction renders him unable even to pay his half share of the rent of the rooms at Baker Street. But when one of his rare bursts of prosperity enables him to buy two strikingly good pictures from a pawnbroker, Mycroft Holmes...

"Draw your chair up, good Watson, and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.” After these words bring The Noble Batchelor to a close, Holmes lets his emotionless façade slip by the Baker Street fireside as he tells...

It is Easter 1916. As young men go to the trenches in their millions, they take with them A. E. Housman’s collection of poetry, A Shropshire Lad. “Easy to read in the most difficult circumstances and full of happy memories of home”, opines Mycroft Holmes. But has Housman succumbed to...

It has taken over 80 years, but at long last, the British government’s embargo on reporting this slice of diplomatic history has been lifted. It was in November 1940 that a senior minister at the British foreign office in blacked-out London commissioned Holmes and Watson to go to Berlin to...

„Jemand musste Josef Karr verleumdet haben, denn, ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet.“ Mit diesen Worten fängt Franz Kafkas Meisterwerk, Der Prozess an. Das Werk wurde in 1914/5 geschrieben und erst 1925, ein Jahr nach dem Tod des Autors...

Another encounter with Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, hereditary king of Bohemia, and Holmes’ commissioner in Sherlock Holmes and a Scandal in Bohemia. The king is no longer with his first wife and has organized a ball at the Savoy Hotel in London to choose a new bride. But the...

The first thriller about accountancy. Sherlock Holmes, the world's only consulting detective, and Mary Harris Smith, the world's only female accountancy practitioner investigate the activities of Marylebone Cole Supplies Limited. Listeners may be reminded of a more recent accountancy which...

Orlando Pearson, master narrator of history and Holmestry, has done it again. In this eighth volume of the acclaimed Redacted Sherlock Holmes we learn: - What Moriarty had done to be regarded as the Napoleon of crime - Why Watson's wound was first described as being in the shoulder and then in...

Orlando Pearson presents five more scandalously entertaining stories in his well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series; A Perilous Engagement: Mycroft Holmes and a Whitehall whitewash; Death at Tennis: The hunt for the lady who fled the ball; An Encirclement Thwarted: Espionage work...

An astounding revelation about the government’s stewardship of the economy. Sir Joseph Porter was first lord of the Admiralty in Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore which was a thinly veiled parody of WH Smith, British politician extraordinaire who first held that role and then ascended to...

Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, and Inspector Gregson, long out of touch with Sherlock Holmes, meet the great detective on 28 June 1914, the day of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. The Germans have introduced a new code and it has baffled the British secret service. As...