An Anonymous Commission

A Case File from The Redacted Sherlock Holmes

By: Orlando Pearson

Narrated by: Steve White

Holmes meets Joseph Haydn in London and the two form an instant bond.

This encounter and a later one with Haydn's young acquaintance, Beethoven, assume a new importance when Holmes and Watson travel to Vienna on a diplomatic mission and are consulted by Constanze Mozart, widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Who commissioned her husband to write a requiem? Why was the commission made through an intermediary? And how can the commissioner be persuaded to pay the balance of the fee when the Requiem remains unfinished?

Holmes applies the full panoply of his skills to deliver a solution critical to the history of music.

©2016 Orlando Pearson (P)2016 MX Publishing

Mixed feelings

Not a fan of anachronistic pastiche, Haydn and Mozart having died a century before the Holmesian heyday in the 1880s and 90s. But if one can suspend disbelief, well written and involving.

Strings Attached

Sherlock Homes and Doctor Watson meet various musicians; along with the widow Mozart, who asks Homes to find the person who commissioned the Requiem that her husband had been working on , when he died.

A bit odd, but well written

Holmes is placed among some of Europe’s most famous composers to solve a mystery behind a half finished Mozart composition. This one is a bit strange considering the composers mentioned lived 100 years before and also considering the fact this is set during what should be Holmes’s “great hiatus.”