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The Slave of Duty
di Orlando Pearson
When pirates outwit the detective—and duty demands a different kind of courage.
Short story | pagg. 13 | 27/10/2026 | Giallo
When pirates outwit the detective—and duty demands a different kind of courage.
Short story | pagg. 13 | 27/10/2026 | Giallo
Penzance, 1889. Holmes, still recovering from addiction, finds himself chasing a bolted horse—and stumbling into a pirate conspiracy. A Major-General with a secret mission, an apprentice bound by a contract's absurd loophole, and a band of noble-born brigands who spare all orphans. Holmes deduces their origins, but only Watson's quick thinking saves them. A lighthearted adventure where logic meets lyric, and duty takes a most unexpected turn.
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.
