The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

In honourable homage to Conan Doyle, Caleb Carr escorts Holmes and Watson through what turns out to be one of their most sensational adventures -one of their "largely secret sub-collection" of cases, swathed in discretion and bound by decorum. Rightly so, given the delicate nature of the investigation: murder in a royal palace, an affront to the majesty of Queen Victoria, and a tantalising taje on another,a ncient murder. One witnessed by the wilful Mary Queen of Scots...