Sherlock Book Review - The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume IX
Publié par Steve Emecz le
...high-spirited, carefree, and boisterous play including an episode of light-hearted lovemaking without any serious commitment....
Holmes and Watson find themselves involved in a ménage à trois with Alma Mahler, Dr Watson finds himself discussing lesbianism with Queen Victoria, and Holmes and Watson become embroiled in the intrigues of both Adolf Hitler and Charles de Gaulle. Even Tsar Nicholas II does not escape unscathed. Pearson manages to eviscerate him with a minimum of fuss and a deadly pen....
This book 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.
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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 of The Golden Pince-Nez plus a petition from Sergei Rachmaninov,
- The Queen, the Dame, and the Left-Footer sees encounters with three famous women of Holmes's time;
- In The Bohemian Corporal, Homes and Watson are in Munich to stop the rise of Adolf Hitler;
- A Benefactor of the Race reveals Holmes's role in the growth of the human race and in the prolongation of the First World War; and
- In A Certain Idea of France the duo organize the liberation of Paris in 1944 with some help from Charles de Gaulle
The ninth collection in the Redacted Sherlock Holmes Series.