The Redacted Sherlock Holmes, Volume II

By: Orlando Pearson

Narrated by: Steve White

Volume II of the Redacted Sherlock Holmes presents more stories manifestly too scandalous to publish in the lifetime of the great Baker Street detective. Here we meet Sherlock Holmes as he investigates:

• Why the publication of a British Government report of a recent war is being delayed
• The continued career of James Windibank, villain of "A Case of Identity"
• The mystery behind the commissioner of a musical masterpiece
• A notorious killing in 1930s Berlin
• The complex relationship between Queen Victoria, her family and her domestic servants

Finally, "The Adventure of the Fourth Messenger" elucidates the contribution of Sherlock Holmes to the writing of the Bible. Mr. Pearson mixes canonical stories, history and speculation to produce a sensationally entertaining brew which all lovers of serious sleuthing will find themselves unable to put down. In this volume:

• The Alcock Report
• The Camberwell Tyrant
• An Anonymous Commission
• The German Interpreter
• The Prince and the Munshi
• The Adventure of the Fourth Messenger

©2016 Orlando Pearson (P)2016 MX Publishing

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A collection of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson stories, different stories of different time periods, with our heroes inserted into the story line. Very enjoyable and thought provoking.

Enjoyable

The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume II by Orlando Pearson is a variety of Sherlock Holmes adventure stories over different historical time periods. The narration by Steve White is excellent.

Holmes meets people who died before his birth

I often enjoy stories that put Holmes and Watson in other contexts, from the modern day, to a London where H. G. Wells War of the Worlds happens at the turn of the 20th century, to Alice in Wonderland. But tell me up front that that is the kind of story I am walking into. Set my expectations properly, and I will gladly go along for the ride.

I have been a fan of classical music for more than five decades, so I well know that Mozart died in 1791, Haydn in 1809, and Beethoven in 1827. So having Holmes encounter them in England, then Germany, in 1891 is quite jarring. I kept shouting in my head, "They are all LONG DEAD!" It really ruined my enjoyment of the tale of the Anonymous Commission.

And similarly for the Adventure of the Fourth Messanger. He was well out of his time, and again, it just bugged me. Warn me up front, and I will suspend my reality checks. Fail, and I will write a scathing review, specifically, this one.

An open letter to the narrator:

My dear sir, for the love of all things Holmes, STOP! Don't read anything more until you've spent at least an hour a day, every day, for many months, learning the words that occur in the Canon and in good pastiches, before reading again. You misread or mispronounce a word every few minutes, so instead of just relaxing and enjoying the story, I am constantly yanked out, shouting in my head that you said another word wrong.

I know you like being an audiobook narrator, but stay away from anything science-fiction, fantasy, and anything written before the 1960s. You just don't have the vocabulary for any of those, and your butchery of the English language is fingernails scraping on the chalkboard of my mind!

All of that being said, if these things don't bother you like they bother me, you may well enjoy this audiobook!

This was just history with Holmes stuck in here and there.

These were NOT Holmes stories just VERY BORING HISTORY LESSONS give this one a total miss.