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    The Baron of Wimbledon
    The Baron of Wimbledon
    The Baron of Wimbledon
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    The Baron of Wimbledon

    By Orlando Pearson

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    Giallo - novelette (22 pagine) - Gottfried von Cramm, a German tennis star of the 1930’s, petitions Holmes for help.


    The sportsman is being blackmailed on a matter of the utmost delicacy, and when the blackmailer reveals all to the National Socialist authorities, it is Holmes who comes to the rescue by asking Reichsmarschall, Herman Göring to intervene.

    But is the better than expected outcome to the case a result of Holmes’s intervention or is Cramm’s glamourous mother keeping her own role to herself.   And why does Frau von Cramm seem so familiar to Holmes?

    It is only once Britain is on the brink of another war against Germany that the full truth dawns on Holmes.


    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 dateApr 26, 2022
    ISBN9788825420197
    The Baron of Wimbledon

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      The Baron of Wimbledon - Orlando Pearson

      221b

      Luigi Pachì, editor

      Delos Digital

      Orlando Pearson

      The Baron of Wimbledon

      NOVELETTE

      ISBN 9788825420197

      © 2017 Orlando Pearson

      Ebook edition © 2022 Delos Digital srl

      Piazza Bonomelli 6/6 20139 Milano Italy

      Version: 1.0

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      Collection edited by Luigi Pachì

      Contents

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      This book

      The Author

      The Baron of Wimbledon

      The Baron of Wimbledon

      In this series

      This book

      Gottfried von Cramm, a German tennis star of the 1930’s, petitions Holmes for help.

      The sportsman is being blackmailed on a matter of the utmost delicacy, and when the blackmailer reveals all to the National Socialist authorities, it is Holmes who comes to the rescue by asking Reichsmarschall, Herman Göring to intervene.

      But is the better than expected outcome to the case a result of Holmes’s intervention or is Cramm’s glamourous mother keeping her own role to herself.   And why does Frau von Cramm seem so familiar to Holmes?

      It is only once Britain is on the brink of another war against Germany that the full truth dawns on Holmes.

      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

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      The Baron of Wimbledon

      In the story I have recounted under the title The Führer and his Deputies, I described how in 1937, newly widowed, I moved down to Sussex to share once more quarters with my friend Sherlock Holmes.

      I confess that when I moved, I

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