A Scandal in Nova Alba

A Scandal in Nova Alba PDF Author: Orlando Pearson
Publisher: Delos Digital srl
ISBN: 8825404492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Giallo - short story (22 pagine) - The King of Nova Alba approaches Sherlock Holmes with a mystery: who killed his predecessor? Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies and histories. But he never got around to writing a whodunnit and this mixture of the Bard and Baker Street fills the gap in his oeuvre. The King of Nova Alba approaches Sherlock Holmes. The current king’s predecessor on the Nova Alban throne, King Duncan, came to a violent end and Holmes’s petitioner is the prime suspect. He wants Sherlock Holmes to find the true killer. There is many a twist in a familiar tale, before Holmes reveals the utterly unexpected truth. Orlando Pearson, creator of the well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series, commutes into London during the day and communes with the spirits of Baker Street by night. An international businessman, his interests include classical music, history, literature, current affairs, sport and economics. All these themes find their way into his stories which are being translated into German and Italian. Mr Pearson is married with two children and lives near Wisteria Lodge.

A Scandal in Nova Alba

A Scandal in Nova Alba PDF Author: Orlando Pearson
Publisher: Delos Digital srl
ISBN: 8825404492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Book Description
Giallo - short story (22 pagine) - The King of Nova Alba approaches Sherlock Holmes with a mystery: who killed his predecessor? Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies and histories. But he never got around to writing a whodunnit and this mixture of the Bard and Baker Street fills the gap in his oeuvre. The King of Nova Alba approaches Sherlock Holmes. The current king’s predecessor on the Nova Alban throne, King Duncan, came to a violent end and Holmes’s petitioner is the prime suspect. He wants Sherlock Holmes to find the true killer. There is many a twist in a familiar tale, before Holmes reveals the utterly unexpected truth. Orlando Pearson, creator of the well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series, commutes into London during the day and communes with the spirits of Baker Street by night. An international businessman, his interests include classical music, history, literature, current affairs, sport and economics. All these themes find their way into his stories which are being translated into German and Italian. Mr Pearson is married with two children and lives near Wisteria Lodge.

A Scandal in Nova Alba - Stage-play version

A Scandal in Nova Alba - Stage-play version PDF Author: Orlando Pearson
Publisher: Delos Digital srl
ISBN: 8825409842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Giallo - stage play (11 pagine) - The King of Nova Alba, in this new stage-play version of the story, approaches Sherlock Holmes to discover who killed the king’s predecessor. Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies and histories but he never got around to writing a whodunnit, and this mixture of the Bard and Baker Street fills the gap in his oeuvre. The King of Nova Alba approaches Sherlock Holmes. The current king’s predecessor on the Nova Alban throne, King Duncan, came to a violent end and Holmes’s petitioner is the prime suspect. He wants Sherlock Holmes to find the true killer. There is many a twist in a familiar tale, before Holmes reveals the utterly unexpected truth. Two years after Delos’s publication of the story version of "A Scandal in Nova Alba", here it is as at last as a stage-play. Orlando Pearson, creator of the well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series, commutes into London during the day and communes with the spirits of Baker Street by night. An international businessman, his interests include classical music, history, literature, current affairs, sport and economics. All these themes find their way into his stories which are being translated into German and Italian. Mr Pearson is married with two children and lives near Wisteria Lodge.

The Redacted Sherlock Holmes - The Stage Plays

The Redacted Sherlock Holmes - The Stage Plays PDF Author: Orlando Pearson
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1787056732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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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.

Sherlock Holmes: A Seasonal Tale

Sherlock Holmes: A Seasonal Tale PDF Author: Orlando Pearson
Publisher: Delos Digital srl
ISBN: 8825418582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Giallo - novelette (35 pagine) - A Sherlock Holmes story with many contemporary resonances “Is this the ending of days?” gasps Watson in this ground-breaking story of religion and the climate change. Holmes is petitioned by the groom of the Bedlam lunatic asylum to investigate a mysterious birth that has taken place there. And after the notorious winter of 1894/5, an inscrutable politician, gives Holmes a commission to investigate whether the climate is changing and whether industrialisation is the cause. Holmes’s investigation into both cases has ambiguous results and Holmes is left to philosophise on the parallels between the two. A Sherlock Holmes story with many contemporary resonances. Orlando Pearson, creator of the well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series, commutes into London during the day and communes with the spirits of Baker Street by night. An international businessman, his interests include classical music, history, literature, current affairs, sport and economics. All these themes find their way into his stories which are being translated into German and Italian. Mr Pearson is married with two children and lives near Wisteria Lodge.

The Baron of Wimbledon

The Baron of Wimbledon PDF Author: Orlando Pearson
Publisher: Delos Digital srl
ISBN: 8825420196
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Giallo - novelette (22 pagine) - Gottfried von Cramm, a German tennis star of the 1930’s, petitions Holmes for help. The sportsman is being blackmailed on a matter of the utmost delicacy, and when the blackmailer reveals all to the National Socialist authorities, it is Holmes who comes to the rescue by asking Reichsmarschall, Herman Göring to intervene. But is the better than expected outcome to the case a result of Holmes’s intervention or is Cramm’s glamourous mother keeping her own role to herself. And why does Frau von Cramm seem so familiar to Holmes? It is only once Britain is on the brink of another war against Germany that the full truth dawns on Holmes. Orlando Pearson, creator of the well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series, commutes into London during the day and communes with the spirits of Baker Street by night. An international businessman, his interests include classical music, history, literature, current affairs, sport and economics. All these themes find their way into his stories which are being translated into German and Italian. Mr Pearson is married with two children and lives near Wisteria Lodge.

Sherlock Holmes - The Poet and his Muse

Sherlock Holmes - The Poet and his Muse PDF Author: Orlando Pearson
Publisher: Delos Digital srl
ISBN: 882541840X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Giallo - short story (20 pagine) - Holmes lets his emotionless façade slip by the Baker Street fireside... "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 Watson of his very first case. Dating back to 1869, the case takes in the Thames, London Zoo, Highgate Cemetery, a poet, and a beautiful and tragic female figure. A must for all lovers of the outre. Orlando Pearson, creator of the well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series, commutes into London during the day and communes with the spirits of Baker Street by night. An international businessman, his interests include classical music, history, literature, current affairs, sport and economics. All these themes find their way into his stories which are being translated into German and Italian. Mr Pearson is married with two children and lives near Wisteria Lodge.

The Queen, the Prince, and the Munshi

The Queen, the Prince, and the Munshi PDF Author: Orlando Pearson
Publisher: Delos Digital srl
ISBN: 8825426208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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Giallo - novelette (22 pagine) - Holmes has to carry out some deft political manoeuvring, as he deals with an empire-threatening crisis. Holmes and Watson are seized by Queen Victoria’s son, Prince Edward Albert, who wants them to find evidence that his mother is unfit to serve as Queen. In the royal residence at Balmoral, Holmes and Watson witness the aged Queen Victoria engage in some highly questionable behaviour and Holmes has to carry out some deft political manoeuvring, as he deals with an empire-threatening crisis. London businessman, Orlando Pearson is the creator of The Redacted Sherlock Holmes series, which buries forever the idea that Sherlock Holmes might not have been a historical person. Do you want to see Sherlock Holmes come to the rescue of Queen Victoria, arrange the borders of post-war Europe, clear Macbeth of murder, unravel King Oedipus’s complexities, or provide advice to the Almighty? Then you will find all this and more in the seven collections of short stories, two novels, and the six plays in the series. When not communing with the spirits of 221b, Orlando enjoys sport, music, and browsing price comparison websites. He has written Sherlock Holmes stories on all these topics.

The Fourth Student

The Fourth Student PDF Author: Orlando Pearson
Publisher: Delos Digital srl
ISBN: 8825427115
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Giallo - novelette (29 pagine) - The sequel to the canonical story “The Three Students”. The sequel to the canonical story, The Three Students. As Holmes and Watson sit at breakfast having solved the case, the wrongdoer they have just identified interrupts them. A fourth student, his main rival in the long-jump, is behaving in a very peculiar manner, and is carrying all before him on the sports-field. The trail takes Holmes and Watson to a barber’s shop where they acquire a preparation which the barber markets as a performance enhancer. But this is by no means the end of a murky trail to discover how to win Olympic gold. London businessman, Orlando Pearson is the creator of The Redacted Sherlock Holmes series, which buries forever the idea that Sherlock Holmes might not have been a historical person. Do you want to see Sherlock Holmes come to the rescue of Queen Victoria, arrange the borders of post-war Europe, clear Macbeth of murder, unravel King Oedipus’s complexities, or provide advice to the Almighty? Then you will find all this and more in the seven collections of short stories, two novels, and the six plays in the series. When not communing with the spirits of 221b, Orlando enjoys sport, music, and browsing price comparison websites. He has written Sherlock Holmes stories on all these topics.

The Dilemma of Mr Henry Baker

The Dilemma of Mr Henry Baker PDF Author: Paul D. Gilbert
Publisher: Delos Digital srl
ISBN: 8825420560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31

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Giallo - short story (16 pagine) - Can Sherlock Holmes come to Mr. Baker’s aid... once again? An old acquaintance, from a Christmas past, arrives at 221B Baker Street, to present Sherlock Holmes with another festive challenge. Can the great detective come to Mr. Baker’s aid once again? Paul D Gilbert was born in London in 1954. He now lives in Harrow with his wife 'and editor' Jackie. They have two sons, Stephen and Philip and a four year old Grandson, Dylan. Besides his beloved writing, Paul also enjoys all aspects of ancient history, movies, science fiction and a vast array of different kinds of music and sport. He is currently employed as a full time undertaker and is close to completing his eighth Sherlock Holmes pastiche.

Sherlock Holmes and the Trial of Joseph Carr

Sherlock Holmes and the Trial of Joseph Carr PDF Author: Orlando Pearson
Publisher: Delos Digital srl
ISBN: 8825419082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Giallo - novelette (28 pagine) - A must for all lovers of serious sleuthing. In Kafka’s The Trial, Josef K (here rendered Joseph Carr) is arrested one morning although he has not done anything wrong, and is put on trial although no charge is ever disclosed to him. Here Holmes conducts his own investigation into the arrest and subsequent legal process and his solution has uncanny pre-echoes of the early 21st century banking crisis and, in an extraordinary twist, Watson’s text even name-checks some of the people that caused it. In its new guise The Trial emerges truly as a story of Holmes’s time, our time and for all time. Orlando Pearson, creator of the well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series, commutes into London during the day and communes with the spirits of Baker Street by night. An international businessman, his interests include classical music, history, literature, current affairs, sport and economics. All these themes find their way into his stories which are being translated into German and Italian. Mr Pearson is married with two children and lives near Wisteria Lodge.