The Baron of Wimbledon

By: Orlando Pearson

Narrated by: Steve White

Gottlieb von Cramm, a German tennis star of the 1930s, 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.

©2017 Orlando Pearson (P)2017 MX Publishing

Playing Ball

A professional tennis player asks an aged Sherlock Holmes for help with his game. Homes makes some deductions to improve his game.

Eighty is the new forty

It’s 1937. Holmes and Watson are in their 80s, but still solving cases, from time to time.

The author has the Great Detective try to help a German tennis player, but that’s not the real story. As a detective story, it wasn’t much. But as a Holmesian tale, ah, there’s the rub.

The narrator does a decent job, but again, struggles with the rich vocabulary of a good Holmesian pastiche.

Still, a quick bit of listening you might enjoy.