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The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Griffin
Publication date October 27, 2009
Pages 338
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780312352042
ISBN-10 0312352042
Dimensions 1 by 5.25 by 8.50 in.
Weight 0.68 lbs.
Original list price $15.99
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:

Caleb Carr’s novel, The Alienest, was a blockbuster international bestseller and positioned its author as a modern master of the historical thriller. Now, Carr reaches back further, to the age of opium dens and Jack the Ripper, when fictional detective Sherlock Holmes made the science of murder as real as the gore on a killer’s hands…

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 Holyroodhouse 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 Holyroodhouse 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...



Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9780786278985 Book cover for 9780786715480
 
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (September 23, 2005)
9780786278985 | details & prices | 365 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $30.95
About: A New York Times Bestseller Caleb Carr's newest tale (commissioned by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) begins when Sherlock Holmes reveals to Dr.
from Running Pr Book Pub (April 7, 2005)
9780786715480 | details & prices | 263 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $23.95
About: Legendary detective Sherlock Holmes finds himself on the trail of a murderer whose connections may run all the way up the social ladder to the royal family.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780312352042 Book cover for 9780312939137 Book cover for 9780751537475
 
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Griffin (October 27, 2009)
9780312352042 | details & prices | 338 pages | 5.25 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.68 lbs | List price $15.99
About: Caleb Carr’s novel, The Alienest, was a blockbuster international bestseller and positioned its author as a modern master of the historical thriller.
New edition from Gardners Books (August 3, 2006)
9780751537475 | details & prices | 288 pages | List price $21.40
About: At the invitation of the Conan Doyle Estate, the best- selling historical thriller writer, Caleb Carr, has created a new adventure for Holmes and Watson, set in the grandeur of Holyrood Palace in the twilight of Queen Victoria's reign.
Reprint edition from St Martins Pr (May 2, 2006)
9780312939137 | details & prices | 338 pages | 4.50 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $7.99
About: The author of The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness presents another angle on the Sherlock Holmes saga, setting the legendary detective on the trail of a murderer whose connections may run all the way up the social ladder to the royal family.
Reprint edition from St Martins Pr (May 2, 2006)
9780312939137 | details & prices | 338 pages | 4.50 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $7.99
About: The author of The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness presents another angle on the Sherlock Holmes saga, setting the legendary detective on the trail of a murderer whose connections may run all the way up the social ladder to the royal family.

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