Dark Arts, Dark Acts - The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Novel 1, Paperback

Dark Arts, Dark Acts by Orlando Pearson is a Sherlock Holmes novel set against a backdrop of diplomatic history. This paperback is the first novel in The Redacted Sherlock Holmes series.

Key details

• Author: Orlando Pearson
• ISBN: 9781787058910
• Format: Paperback
• Series: The Redacted Sherlock Holmes
• Novel 1 in the series

Synopsis

After more than eighty years, a British government embargo on reporting a particular episode of diplomatic history has been lifted. In November 1940, a senior minister at the British Foreign Office commissions Holmes and Watson to travel from blacked-out London to Berlin to negotiate a prisoner-of-war exchange with the German high command.

The terms set by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Göbbels require the pair to assist the Berlin police in pursuing a serial killer targeting the city’s railway network. As the investigation unfolds, questions arise about Holmes’s candour with Watson, the wider purpose behind the Foreign Office’s request, and what might be uncovered across the German rail system, alongside efforts to persuade the United States to enter the war on Britain’s side. The account ranges across London, Berlin and Moscow in 1940 and 1941, with hints of Mycroft Holmes and Nicolo Machiavelli in the statecraft at play.

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