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Foul Whisperings...
Mycroft Holmes's encoded message to his brother, Sherlock, is unsubtle enough even for Dr. Watson to decipher: a matter concerning the safety of Queen Victoria herself calls them to Edinburgh's Holyrood House to investigate the confounding and gruesome deaths of two young men--horrific incidents that took place with her highness in residence. The victims were crushed in a manner surpassing human power. And while recent attempts on her majesty's life raise a number of possibilities, these intrigues also seem strangely connected to an act of evil that took place centuries earlier…
...Unnatural Deeds
For indeed, the slaying of David Rizzio, music master and friend to Mary Queen of Scots, was an extraordinarily brutal and treacherous act--even for a time when brutality and treachery were the order of the day. Now, the ghosts of Holyrood House are being reawakened by someone with a diabolical agenda of greed, madness, and terror as Holmes and Watson set out to trap a killer who is eager to rewrite history in blood...
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Fiction, John H. Watson (Fictitious character), Palace of Holyroodhouse (Edinburgh, Scotland), Private investigators, Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character), Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), fiction, Murder, Investigation, historical fiction, Conspiracies, Detective and mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Assassination attempts, Open Library Staff Picks, Criminal psychology, Assassination, Attempted assassination, New York Times reviewed, Edinburgh (scotland), fiction, Watson, john h. (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, historical, Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Holmes, Sherlock (Personnage fictif), Romans, nouvelles, Roman policier, Roman historique, HistoirePeople
John H. Watson (Fictitious character), Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character), David Riccio, Queen Victoria, Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Victoria Queen of Great Britain (1819-1901), David Riccio (1533?-1566)Places
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Italian Secretary, The: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
2006, Time Warner Paperbacks, Time warner
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Le secrétaire italien: roman : [une nouvelle aventure de Sherlock Holmes]
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The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
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The Italian secretary: a novel
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The Italian secretary: a novel
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The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
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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 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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