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The Snake, the Cleric, and the Post
di Orlando Pearson
The greatest miscarriage of justice in British history—and the one man who could stop it.
Short story | pagg. 18 | 22/09/2026 | Giallo
The greatest miscarriage of justice in British history—and the one man who could stop it.
Short story | pagg. 18 | 22/09/2026 | Giallo
A routine pension queue leads Watson to a quiet injustice—a sub-postmistress accused of theft she swears she did not commit. Holmes uncovers a pattern of nearly a thousand similar prosecutions across Britain, all based on faulty adding machines. As he exposes the Post Office's relentless cover-up, he finds a system that sacrificed honest workers to protect its own. But victory comes too late for those who lost everything—including their lives. A chilling tale of institutional cruelty, based on real events.
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.
