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    A Scandal in Nova Alba
    A Scandal in Nova Alba
    A Scandal in Nova Alba
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    A Scandal in Nova Alba

    By Orlando Pearson

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    Giallo - short story (22 pagine) - The King of Nova Alba approaches Sherlock Holmes with a mystery: who killed his predecessor?


    Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies and histories. But he never got around to writing a whodunnit and this mixture of the Bard and Baker Street fills the gap in his oeuvre.

    The King of Nova Alba approaches Sherlock Holmes. The current king’s predecessor on the Nova Alban throne, King Duncan, came to a violent end and Holmes’s petitioner is the prime suspect.

    He wants Sherlock Holmes to find the true killer.

    There is many a twist in a familiar tale, before Holmes reveals the utterly unexpected truth.


    Orlando Pearson, creator of the well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series, commutes into London during the day and communes with the spirits of Baker Street by night.

    An international businessman, his interests include classical music, history, literature, current affairs, sport and economics. All these themes find their way into his stories which are being translated into German and Italian.

    Mr Pearson is married with two children and lives near Wisteria Lodge.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDelos Digital
    Release dateDec 19, 2017
    ISBN9788825404494
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      A Scandal in Nova Alba - Orlando Pearson

      Luigi Pachì, editor

      Orlando Pearson

      A Scandal in Nova Alba

      SHORT STORY

      First edition, December 2017

      ISBN 9788825404494

      © 2017 Orlando Pearson

      Ebook Edition © 2017 Delos Digital srl

      Piazza Bonomelli 6/6 20139 Milano Italy

      Version: 1.0

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      Contents

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      The Author

      A Scandal in Nova Alba

      A Scandal in Nova Alba

      In this series

      This book

      The King of Nova Alba approaches Sherlock Holmes with a mystery: who killed his predecessor?

      Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies and histories. But he never got around to writing a whodunnit and this mixture of the Bard and Baker Street fills the gap in his oeuvre.

      The King of Nova Alba approaches Sherlock Holmes. The current king’s predecessor on the Nova Alban throne, King Duncan, came to a violent end and Holmes’s petitioner is the prime suspect.

      He wants Sherlock Holmes to find the true killer.

      There is many a twist in a familiar tale, before Holmes reveals the utterly unexpected truth.

      The Author

      Orlando Pearson, creator of the well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series, commutes into London during the day and communes with the spirits of Baker Street by night.

      An international businessman, his interests include classical music, history, literature, current affairs, sport and economics. All these themes find their way into his stories which are being translated into German and Italian.

      Mr Pearson is married with two children and lives near Wisteria Lodge.

      From the same author

      Orlando Pearson, The Führer and his Deputies 221B ISBN: 9788825404081

      A Scandal in Nova Alba

      I came down to breakfast to find Holmes seated in his normal place. He did not look up from a document that had come in that morning’s post. After several minutes of intense concentration, he wordlessly passed it over to me, and I took it to the window to look at it in the sunlight shining into our sitting-room. It was an undated, unsigned note written in thick black ink and the address at the top was of a hotel in Rome.

      "There will call upon you tonight at a quarter to eight o’clock, a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a matter of the highest importance. Your recent services to two of the royal

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