The Italian Secretary : A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)

The bestselling author of "The Alienist" reaches further back into history to the age of opium dens and Jack the Ripper, when fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is summoned to the aid of Queen Victoria in Scotland by Holmes' brother, Mycroft, a royal advisor.

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.