Giallo - short story (13 pagine) - Before the crimes, the first clue—hidden in plain stone.
A young Sherlock Holmes, orphaned and penniless, is set a seemingly impossible task: find a Saxon church that has vanished without trace. While his schoolmaster trusts old texts and visions from a hill, Holmes trusts only what he can see—and what others overlook. His search through dusty archives leads nowhere, until a blocked chimney sends him where no one thought to look. There, in plain sight, he discovers something that rewrites English history. A quiet, luminous tale of the deduction that started it all.
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.
