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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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The Italian secretary: a further adventure of Sherlock Holmes
2009, St. Martin's Griffin
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The Italian Secretary
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The Italian secretary: a novel
2006, HarperPerennial
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Le secrétaire italien: roman : [une nouvelle aventure de Sherlock Holmes]
2006, Presses de la Cité
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The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
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Italian Secretary, The: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
2006, Time Warner Paperbacks, Time warner
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The Italian secretary: a further adventure of Sherlock Holmes
2005, Carroll & Graf
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The Italian Secretary
April 11, 2005, Simon & Schuster Audio
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The Italian secretary: a further adventure of Sherlock Holmes
2005, Carroll & Graf
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The Italian Secretary
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The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
2005, Carroll & Graf
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The Italian Secretary (The Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes)
2005, Avalon
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The Italian secretary: a further adventure of Sherlock Holmes
2005, Thorndike/Windsor/Paragon
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The Italian secretary: a novel
2005, HarperCollins, HarperCollins Publishers
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