Some Taxing Matters
di Orlando Pearson
When the taxman calls, even the Chancellor needs a Holmes to answer.
Copertina di public domain
Short story | pagg. 19 | 24/02/2026 | Giallo
When the taxman calls, even the Chancellor needs a Holmes to answer.
Copertina di public domain
Short story | pagg. 19 | 24/02/2026 | Giallo
In 1926, a financially beleaguered Winston Churchill turns to Mycroft Holmes with an extraordinary request: to engineer a unique and secret tax exemption that would allow the Chancellor of the Exchequer to avoid paying his own substantial tax bill. Mycroft deploys his unparalleled understanding of bureaucracy, ambition, and human weakness to manipulate the Inland Revenue’s top official. But when famed author P.G. Wodehouse seeks similar relief years later, Mycroft faces a dilemma between personal favour and public principle—a sharp exploration of power, privilege, and the art of the possible in the shadow of the state.
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.
