A Goat in the Government

Amid the twin crises of World War I and the deadly Spanish Flu pandemic, Mycroft Holmes faces an unprecedented threat: not from enemy lines, but from within 10 Downing Street itself. When rumours surface of lavish parties hosted by Prime Minister Lloyd George, Mycroft must deploy every tool of manipulation—blackmail, investigative diversion, and calculated silence—to prevent a scandal that could topple the government. As Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are drawn into a web of deception, the line between duty and decadence blurs in a tale of power, pestilence, and the price of statecraft.

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.