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An Anonymous Commission: A case file from "The Redacted Sherlock Holmes"
A bromance for Holmes!
Holmes meets Joseph Haydn in London, and the great men find they have much in common. Holmes hones his musical skills with Haydn while Holmes teaches the latter forensic skills, thus enabling both virtuosi to add enhanced capabilities to the talent for marksmanship they already share.
The encounter Holmes has with Haydn, as well as a later encounter in Bonn with Haydn’s young acquaintance, Ludwig van Beethoven, assume a new importance when Holmes and Watson travel to Vienna on a diplomatic mission and are consulted by the recently widowed Constanze Mozart.
Who, she wants to know, commissioned her late husband, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, to write a Requiem? Why was the commission made anonymously through an intermediary? And how can the mysterious commissioner be persuaded to pay the balance of the fee when the Requiem remains unfinished?
Holmes meets Joseph Haydn in London, and the great men find they have much in common. Holmes hones his musical skills with Haydn while Holmes teaches the latter forensic skills, thus enabling both virtuosi to add enhanced capabilities to the talent for marksmanship they already share.
The encounter Holmes has with Haydn, as well as a later encounter in Bonn with Haydn’s young acquaintance, Ludwig van Beethoven, assume a new importance when Holmes and Watson travel to Vienna on a diplomatic mission and are consulted by the recently widowed Constanze Mozart.
Who, she wants to know, commissioned her late husband, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, to write a Requiem? Why was the commission made anonymously through an intermediary? And how can the mysterious commissioner be persuaded to pay the balance of the fee when the Requiem remains unfinished?
27 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 15, 2015
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September 12, 2025
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.”
Received a free copy of the audio edition in exchange for a review.
Received a free copy of the audio edition in exchange for a review.
October 7, 2024
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.
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