Giallo - novelette (23 pagine) - When art hides a monster, even Sherlock Holmes faces a darkness he cannot unravel.

In The Sussex Factotum, Dr. Watson unveils a case so shocking it was buried for decades-one that tested the limits of justice and morality. When Mycroft Holmes enlists his brother and Watson to investigate the enigmatic artist Eric Gill, they uncover a truth far more grotesque than mere artistic controversy.

Gill, a revered sculptor and typographer, lives a life of devout piety-or so it seems. But behind the walls of his secluded commune, a horrifying secret festers. As Holmes infiltrates Gill's world disguised as a friar, Watson stumbles upon a diary that exposes acts too depraved to name. Yet when they bring their findings to Mycroft, the British government faces an impossible choice: expose a national scandal or let evil thrive in silence.

A chilling exploration of power, complicity, and the cost of inaction, The Sussex Factotum is a story Watson feared to tell-until now.

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.