The Italian Secretary

The Italian Secretary
First edition
Author	Caleb Carr
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Detective & Mystery novel
Publisher	Carroll & Graf
Publication date	2005
Media type	Print
Pages	256
ISBN	0-7867-1548-0
OCLC	58804944
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3553.A76277 I86 2005

The Italian Secretary is mystery fiction by Caleb Carr featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. This literary pastiche is meant as an honourable homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and one that had the approval of the Doyle estate.

Plot summary

Architect Sir Alistair Sinclair and his foreman, Dennis McKay, have been slain in the midst of rehabilitating the medieval west tower of the Royal Palace of Holyrood—the very wing where Mary, Queen of Scots, had lived, and where David Rizzio had met his brutal, politically motivated end. Mycroft Holmes fears these murders portend new threats against Britain's present monarch—the elderly Queen Victoria, who occasionally lodges at the palace—by a known assassin, perhaps in nefarious league with the German Kaiser. En route north, Holmes and Watson are menaced aboard their train by a red-bearded bomb thrower (supposedly a rabid Scots nationalist), only to discover that still greater dangers await them, and others, at Holyroodhouse. The plaintive drone of a weeping woman, cruelly punctured and shattered corpses, a pool of blood "that never dries", and a disembodied Italian voice with unexpected musical tastes all imply the wrath of wraiths behind recent atrocities. But Holmes and Watson deduce that greed, rather than ghosts, may be to blame.

Characters in The Italian Secretary

Release details

2005, United States, publisher ISBN 0-7867-1548-0, Pub date 2005, binding

Novels by Caleb Carr

Casing the Promised Land The Alienist The Angel of Darkness Killing Time The Italian Secretary The Legend of Broken

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