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- Sprache: Englisch
Giallo - short story (22 pagine) - A Scandal in Vienna: Holmes and Watson's Most Daring and Forbidden Adventure!
In the opulent spa town of Baden bei Wien, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves entangled in a web of passion, deception, and intrigue. When the famed detective is approached by the brilliant but tormented composer Gustav Mahler to investigate his wife’s suspected infidelity, Holmes embarks on a mission that will test his morals, his intellect, and his resolve. But the enigmatic Alma Mahler is no ordinary woman—her beauty, wit, and cunning prove more than a match for the great detective.
As Watson enjoys a fleeting romance with a mysterious stranger, Holmes is drawn into a dangerous game of seduction and secrets. With lies piling high and desires running hotter than the Austrian springs, the duo must navigate a scandal that could shatter reputations and friendships alike.
Set against the backdrop of Vienna’s glittering opera houses and shadowy boudoirs, Alma is a tale of temptation, betrayal, and the unpredictable human heart. A story so explosive it was hidden for decades, this is Sherlock Holmes as you’ve never seen him before—vulnerable, passionate, and utterly enthralled.
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.
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Sherlock Holmes - Alma
221B
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Edited by Luigi Pachì and Luigi Pachì
Orlando Pearson
Sherlock Holmes - Alma
short story
Delos Digital
This book
A Scandal in Vienna: Holmes and Watson's Most Daring and Forbidden Adventure!
In the opulent spa town of Baden bei Wien, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves entangled in a web of passion, deception, and intrigue. When the famed detective is approached by the brilliant but tormented composer Gustav Mahler to investigate his wife’s suspected infidelity, Holmes embarks on a mission that will test his morals, his intellect, and his resolve. But the enigmatic Alma Mahler is no ordinary woman—her beauty, wit, and cunning prove more than a match for the great detective.
As Watson enjoys a fleeting romance with a mysterious stranger, Holmes is drawn into a dangerous game of seduction and secrets. With lies piling high and desires running hotter than the Austrian springs, the duo must navigate a scandal that could shatter reputations and friendships alike.
Set against the backdrop of Vienna’s glittering opera houses and shadowy boudoirs, Alma is a tale of temptation, betrayal, and the unpredictable human heart. A story so explosive it was hidden for decades, this is Sherlock Holmes as you’ve never seen him before—vulnerable, passionate, and utterly enthralled.
The Author
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.
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The first years of the new century brought forth a plethora of new cases for my friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes. In the works published in my lifetime I have always recounted his cases as separate events, but my reader will be unsurprised to learn that they often overlapped. In this period, he often had had three or even four cases under investigation at the same time. The workload this created took its inevitable toll on his normally iron constitution, and his behaviour became increasingly irregular. He ignored my pleas to take a rest, and it was only when Dr Moore Agar, of Harley Street, whose dramatic introduction to Holmes I may some day recount, gave positive injunctions that Holmes lay aside all cases if he wished to avert an absolute breakdown, that he agreed to take the waters.
My readers may at this point wonder what I now have to tell although a similar medical injunction had already given rise to the matter I have chronicled as The Devil’s Foot of 1897. The matter that follows occurred in September 1903, but I have taken steps to ensure that the notes I set down here should not be read until long after both I, and the lady referred to in the title above, have departed this life. On this work’s completion I will add it to those already in the tin despatch-case deposited in the strong room of my bankers, Cox & Co., with the clear injunction that it is not opened until her death and her youth means it is likely to succeed mine by several years.
Readers may think it remarkable that the relationship between Holmes and me should never have been impacted by strains over money or women in the two or more decades that we shared quarters in Baker Street, such being oft the fate of men who arrange their lives in the way that Holmes and I did.
For money Holmes had his detective practice which brought its rewards while I was able to live quite comfortably from the proceeds of the sale of my practice in Paddington which Holmes had brokered. Where money fell short, as these works which have been withheld from publication until after my death have already revealed, both Holmes and I had skills which we could use for our financial benefit.
Some may wonder how a woman or women might ever be a factor in our relationship as I married twice while Holmes described himself in The Valley of Fear as “not the marrying kind.” But being “not the marrying kind” is not the same thing as being without feeling for women as shown by his bestowal of the soubriquet, “The Woman” on Irene Adler. In the case I describe now, things went considerably further than they did with Frau Adler, and this work describes an instance where either Holmes’s feelings for a woman or more openness of my part might have caused a permanent rift in our friendship. There will also be readers who feel that Holmes and I might and should have behaved differently from what is disclosed here. There are thus several different reasons why this work is being recorded for posterity but held back until the moment for its publication is right.
Holmes had eventually decided on Baden bei Wien, sixteen miles to the south of Vienna, capital of the Austro-Hungarian empire, as the place to take the waters. I confess to being something of a sceptic on the health benefits of the consumption of water containing naturally occurring but foul-tasting salts, but Baden is the German-speaking part of Austria’s biggest resort, and consequently boasts both a theatre and a casino and so, even if I felt no benefit from the waters, I was never going to succumb to boredom.
Whenever I could, I avoided the consumption of water and associated treatments and instead walked the countryside around Baden. On the first full day I climbed to the highest point of the Spa Park, the Kalvarienberg, or Calvary Mountain, from where I enjoyed splendid views. I confess I felt a slight frisson of Schadenfreude or joy at the travails of another as I thought of Holmes and the Calvary of his own he was going through as he underwent the prescribed medicinal treatments somewhere below me.
On the evening of the second day, we made the short journey into central Vienna, where Holmes had got us front-row seats at the city’s main concert-hall, the Musikverein. We heard a performance of Beethoven’s Choral Symphony with the director of the Court Opera, Gustav Mahler, guest-conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and its Choir. These combined forces sounded in the finale as though they were storming the gates of heaven as they performed Schiller’s An die Freude or Ode to Joy. Indeed, such was their vigour, it rendered a full understanding of the text unnecessary.
On the third day of our sojourn, I came down to breakfast and found that Holmes was yet to appear. Accordingly, I delayed placing my order and practised my German on the local newspapers while I waited for him. Time passed rapidly, and it was only after a quarter of an hour that I asked the waiter if he had seen my friend.
“I saw your companion,” said Putschandl in the sing-song way the Viennese pronounce English, “on his way into breakfast a few minutes before you. But, as he was coming in here, he was approached by a dark-haired man with glasses.. I saw them go down the front stairs of the hotel together and get into a….Droschke..” he paused and wrinkled his brow while he considered what might be the right word in English… “a cab. I expect they went to the station.”
My heart sank.
