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Unearthed after being lost for nearly a century, at last the memoirs of Mycroft Holmes are available to the general public. Students and followers of his brother, the Great Baker Street detective, Sherlock Holmes, have to date only been offered two stories in which Mycroft Holmes appears and two in which he is mentioned. This publication of the memoirs of Mycroft Holmes after their sensational discovery in the summer of 2023 transforms our understanding of Sherlock Holmes's more intelligent elder brother. 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 honours, Partygate, the 1918 Armistice, and the Abdication crisis of 1936. Mycroft Holmes was at his apogee in the time covered by these memoirs. Is it just chance that this time

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 and his Muse - a life-changing discovery in Highgate Cemetery; A Study in Black and Orange - the race to find a missing royal artefact; The Cherry-Tree and the Comma - poetry, treason, and blackmail; M Harris Smith - the woman with whom Holmes had a professional association; and A Story with a Health-Warning - death, spirits, and taxes. An irresistible blend of Holmestry and history.

It has taken over eighty 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 negotiate a prisoner of war swap with the German high-command.And the price demanded by Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Göbbels, for any prisoner release? That the two work with the Berlin police to capture a serial killer who is stalking the city's railway network.But is Holmes being entirely honest with Watson about why the Foreign Office wants the pair to conduct an investigation which can only help the Nozi war-effort? And what else might Holmes's investigation of the German railway network uncover? And how can the United States be persuaded to join the war on the British side?An account of real events in London, Berlin, and Moscow in the years 1940 and 1941 which still shape the present.And the reader may feel hand of both Mycroft Holmes and Nicolo Machiavelli behind the statecraft on display.

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 at the outbreak of World War I; - The Sorceress and the Sea-Lord A financial scandal and a familiar discovery; and - De Profundis: Holmes and Watson at the worst place on earth in 1945 Pearson mixes the Great Baker Street detective with history both familiar and unfamiliar to deliver his customary heady brew of Holmesiana.

After the Redacted stories, the Redacted plays. Dramatisations of the works of Arthur Conan-Doyle, Shakespeare, Sophocles, and of Orlando Pearson. A Scandal in Nova Alba - Did Macbeth really kill King Duncan? Sherlock Holmes investigates. The Baron of Wimbledon - The story of a true German hero of the Nazi period. And a jaw-dropping revelation about the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. A Case of Complex Identity - Arthur Conan Doyle's A Case of Identity. And its shocking sequel, The Camberwell Tyrant. The Bruce-Partington Diptych - Arthur Conan Doyle's espionage story, The Bruce-Partington Plans and its realpolitik inspired sequel, The Sleeper's Cache, featuring Mycroft as well as Sherlock Holmes. A Perilous Engagement - more Machiavellian machinations as we see that there can be a whitewash at Whitehall. Mr Devine's Original Problem - Sherlock Holmes is consulted by the most illustrious client of all. Pearson's plays are ideal for private reading, Zoom broadcasting or production on stage or in the classroom with forces small or large.

VOLUME III of THE REDACTED SHERLOCK HOLMES presents six more scintillating stories from the pen of Orlando Pearson about the great Baker Street detective. Holmes investigates: - Alarming events at the medical practice next door to Dr Watson; - Missing autograph manuscripts in Fascist Italy; - Climate change and a mysterious birth in London in 1894/95; - Tax evasion by the London Softwear Company; - The role of cricket in the rise of Hitler; and - A Kafkaesque plot which foreshadows the banking crash of 2007/08 Mr Pearson mixes the Canon with events from history both very recent and from earlier epochs to show-case the talents of the Baker Street sleuth. In this latest volume: - Dr Anstruther's Practice; - The Red Priest's Treasure Trove; - A Seasonal Tale; - A Dutch Sandwich; - A New Line of Attack; and - The Trial of Joseph Carr More information on other stories in The Redacted Sherlock Holmes series can be found at www.OrlandoPearson.com.

Volume II of the Redacted Sherlock Holmes presents more stories manifestly too scandalous to publish in the lifetime of the Great Baker Street detective. Here we meet Sherlock Holmes as he investigates: -why the publication of a British Government report of a recent war is being delayed; -the continued career of James Windibank, villain of A Case of Identity; -the mystery behind the commissioner of a musical masterpiece; -a notorious killing in 1930's Berlin; and -the complex relationship between Queen Victoria, her family and her domestic servants. Finally, The Adventure of the Fourth Messenger elucidates the contribution of Sherlock Holmes to the writing of the Bible. Mr Pearson mixes canonical stories, history and speculation to produce a sensationally entertaining brew which all lovers of serious sleuthing will find themselves unable to put down. In this volume: -The Alcock Report -The Camberwell Tyrant -An Anonymous Commission -The German Interpreter -The Prince and the Munshi -The Adventure of the Fourth messenger More information on the other stories in The Redacted Sherlock Holmes series can be found at www.Orlando Perason.com.

Five more sizzlingly scandalous Sherlock Holmes stories from the pen of Orlando Pearson. Mr Pearson mixes the canon with elite sport, business high jinks, a musical mystery, a literary mystery, Realpolitik and, in The Hounding of Peer Baskerville rolls the most famous of all detective stories on twenty years.