The Sleeper’s Cache

Giallo - novelette (25 pagine) - A chilling lost case that reveals the shocking moral cost of empire and the dark heart of government itself. Holmes has never been more relevant.

In the shadowy aftermath of "The Bruce-Partington Plans," Dr. John Watson unveils a suppressed and explosive chapter in the career of Sherlock Holmes. When the German spy Oberstein receives a shockingly lenient sentence for murder and espionage, Holmes’s outrage is only the beginning. Recruited by his brother Mycroft—the clandestine cornerstone of the British government—Holmes and Watson are thrust into a desperate race against time. Their mission: to decipher a dying spy’s cryptic clues and locate a hidden cache of secrets before Oberstein is handed over to Germany in a covert diplomatic exchange.

From the foggy streets of London to the ancient stones of Salisbury Plain, the investigation hurtles towards a stunning revelation in the depths of Brunel’s legendary Box Tunnel. But the recovered secrets are not what they seem, and Holmes soon finds himself entangled in a web of statecraft far more sinister and morally ambiguous than any common crime. Faced with torture, suicide, and his own brother’s Machiavellian schemes, the great detective must confront the limits of justice and the grim price of empire.

The Sleeper’s Cache is a masterful tale of suspense, a chilling exploration of realpolitik, and a long-lost story that forever changes our understanding of the Holmes brothers and the dark world they inhabited.

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.