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The Footballer, the Führer, and the Ferris-Wheel
di Orlando Pearson
Justice falters where law bows to power.
Novelette | pagg. 24 | 06/10/2026 | Giallo
Justice falters where law bows to power.
Novelette | pagg. 24 | 06/10/2026 | Giallo
Vienna, 1938. Sherlock Holmes is summoned by a desperate Chancellor to save Austria from Nazi annexation. But in a city where mobs rule and Jews are stripped of everything, his methods prove helpless against a tyranny that rewrites law at will. A footballer's defiant goal and a fair deal for a Jewish café owner become the last acts of decency—and possibly their death sentences. Holmes watches as a nation votes itself into oblivion, powerless to intervene. A haunting tale of detection's limits in the face of evil.
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.
