The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Series by Orlando Pearson

The Church Times calls the works of the Redacted series “clever, thought- provoking, and terrific fun”. The Historical Novels Society says Volume VIII of the Redacted series is “an easy read, perfect for bedtime or beach”, and that Volume IX “should be read and enjoyed while reclining on a chaise longue with a glass of bubbles within reach and with the willing suspension of disbelief fully engaged”. The British Mahler Society writes of the same volume’s “elegantly outrageous approach to canonical history…..chutzpah backed by meticulous research”.

The Redacted series has been created by Orlando Pearson. He retrieves from obscurity matters too scandalous to be published in Dr Watson’s lifetime. Watch as the Great Baker Street Detective jousts with figures such as Churchill, Stalin, Queen Victoria, Tschaikovsky, Kafka, Macbeth, and the Grim Reaper as Pearson demolishes forever the notion  - still widespread among the uninformed  - that Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson, and Mycroft Holmes might not have been a real people.

Autumn 2026 sees the appearance of the latest volume of Mycroft Holmes’s Memoirs, Deep State.

It sees a bank robbery much like that in The Red-Headed League, a friend of royalty much like Jeffery Epstein, three first world war adventures, a hero in the struggle for black rights, sexual high-jinks in 1938 Berlin, and 1920s corruption at a most senior level in British politics.  

This brings Pearson to fifty-six short works and four longer Holmesian works – the same as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Who would bet against Orlando going past Sir Arthur in 2027? 

A Canadian Radio interview with Orlando is under the link below.