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The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Caleb Carr

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Publisher: Carroll Graf Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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ISBN-13: 9780786715480 - ISBN-10: 0786715480
Publication Date: 4/10/2005
Pages: 263


Other Versions of this Book: Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Audio CD (Unabridged), Hardcover

Book Description:
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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JoAnn G. (bookwoman28) wrote on 2/11/2006...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

Author Caleb Carr was commissioned by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write this new Sherlock Holmes adventure. Holmes, his brother Mycroft, and the faithful Watson join forces to solve a double murder in an Edinburgh palace that seems eerily like a murder that took place 300 years ago. Are the rumors of a ghost possibly real? Who of the Queen's supposedly loyal servants can truly be trusted? Carr writes this one in the manner of Doyle, so it's unlike his earlier historical mysteries, and an easier read, if you don't get bogged down in the archaic language.

Brian Y. wrote on 6/30/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Caleb Carr did a good job of writing in Doyle's style. I thought it was ok, the book really wasn't long enough, and to be honest the story was lacking in something. I thought Angel of Darkness, and the Alienist were better works by Carr.


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