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The Italian Secretary

A Further Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes

By Caleb Carr

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| Hardcover | 9780786715480

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to the aid of Queen Victoria in Scotland by a telegram from Holmes’ brother, Mycroft, a royal advisor. Rushed northward on a royal train—and nearly murdered themselves en route—the pair are soon joined by Mycroft, and learn of the brutal kilContinue

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to the aid of Queen Victoria in Scotland by a telegram from Holmes’ brother, Mycroft, a royal advisor. Rushed northward on a royal train—and nearly murdered themselves en route—the pair are soon joined by Mycroft, and learn of the brutal killings of two of the Queen’s servants, a renowned architect and his foreman, both of whom had been working on the renovation of the famous and forbidding Royal Palace of Holyrood, in Edinburgh.

Mycroft has enlisted his brother to help solve the murders that may be key elements of a much more elaborate and pernicious plot on the Queen’s life. But the circumstances of the two victims’ deaths also call to Holmes’ mind the terrible murder—in Holyrood—of "The Italian Secretary," David Rizzio. Only Rizzio, a music teacher and confidante of Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered three centuries ago. Holmes proceeds to alarm Watson with the announcement that the Italian Secretary’s vengeful spirit may have taken the lives of the two men as punishment for disturbing the scene of his assassination.

Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Caleb Carr’s brilliant new offering takes the Conan Doyle tradition to remarkable new heights with this spellbinding tale.

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  • The Italian Secretary

    Shotsmag Reviews - The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr Chapter One: Shadows Over Baker Street "What's this, Grotson, not reading one of your usual sea stories or 'bloods'?" Shamrock Hermes had entered our rooms on Byker Street without my hearing. "N ... (read full critics)

    shotsmag published on Tue, 28 Sep 2010

  • Holmes's ghost

    The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr 278pp, Little, Brown, £12.99 One morning in September 1900 a telegram summons the consulting detective of 221b Baker Street to Edinburgh, to Holyroodhouse. Two of the Queen's servants have been murdered. Bizarre, g ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 263 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0786715480
  • ISBN-13: 9780786715480
  • Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
  • Pub date: Apr 10, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD and Audio Cassette
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