The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Series by Orlando Pearson
The Church Times calls his works “clever, thought-provoking, and
Orlando Pearson is the creator of The Redacted Sherlock Holmes series. In its Baker Street dozen of volumes, Pearson demolishes forever the absurd notion that Sherlock Holmes and his even cleverer brother, Mycroft, might not have been real people.
Autumn 2025 has seen the third Redacted novel, Further Studies in Statecraft. This is a second set of Mycroftian memoirs with Sherlock’s cleverer brother’s Machiavellian machinations on full display as he toys with the Ripper, Alfred Dreyfus, Winston Churchill, Hitler’s only Jewish field-marshal, and two girl-friends of Hitler. In the last work in the collection, Mycroft negotiates a trade deal with maverick American President, Ronald Crump.
Pearson’s ninth collection of short works (not stories) appeared in June and features three famous composers (one female), a famous footballer (female), a scandalous woman, Queen Victoria, a Nobel prize winning scientist, Tsar Nicholas II, Charles de Gaulle, and Adolf Hitler.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote fifty-six short works and four longer ones about Sherlock Holmes.
Who would bet against Orlando matching this in 2026?
A recent Canadian Radio interview with Orlando is under the link below.
