The Hounding of Peers Baskerville E-Book

Orlando Pearson

• Herausgeber: Delos Digital
• Kategorie: Krimi
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Giallo - novella (69 pagine) - Holmes is consulted by Sir Henry Baskerville’s son.

It is 1909 and twenty years have passed since the great Devon adventure. Holmes is consulted by Sir Henry Baskerville’s son, Peers, after a shepherd in the baronet’s clothes is found dead at the foot of a cliff and rumours fly that the hound is back.

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.

Leseprobe

Luigi Pachì, editor

Orlando Pearson

The Hounding of Peers Baskerville

NOVELLA

ISBN 9788825426748

© 2023 Orlando Pearson

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Contents

CoverThis bookThe AuthorThe Hounding of Peers BaskervilleChapter I. Mr Peers BaskervilleChapter II. My Day in CourtChapter III. Return to Baskerville HallChapter IV. Merripit HouseChapter V. An Encounter with Dr MortimerChapter VI. The ScreesChapter VII. Lunch at Lafter HallChapter VIII. Some Precipitate EventsChapter IX. Footsteps in the NightChapter X. Two AltercationsChapter XI. A Familiar TaleChapter XII. A RetrospectiveIn this series

This book

Holmes is consulted by Sir Henry Baskerville’s son.

It is 1909 and twenty years have passed since the great Devon adventure. Holmes is consulted by Sir Henry Baskerville’s son, Peers, after a shepherd in the baronet’s clothes is found dead at the foot of a cliff and rumours fly that the hound is back.

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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Chapter I. Mr Peers Baskerville

After my second marriage in 1907, I continued to see Holmes and help him on his cases although relations between us inevitably became more distant, especially once I had the responsibilities of fatherhood. In late 1909, my wife’s mother fell ill and it was easier for my wife to take the children with her when she went to nurse her so I was rendered, briefly, a straw widower.

It so happened during that time that Holmes involved me in two cases which he solved in quick succession and he marked this achievement by asking me to join him at Covent Garden for a Saturday matinee performance of Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani which was being put on as part of a festival of the Italian operatic master’s music.

I had no other engagement after the performance and we returned to Baker Street, walking up from the Metropolitan Line station to the quarters I had previously shared with him. As we arrived outside, Holmes stopped to look at some markings left by a carriage outside 221B.

“There’s money in our next client if nothing else!” he said as he turned to unlock the front door.