Audio Book Description:
It all begins familiarly enough: Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson are summoned to theaid of Queen Victoria inScotland by an encrypted telegram fromHolmes` brother, Mycroft, a royal advisor. Rushed northward on a royal train they soonlearn of the brutal killings of two of the Queen`s servantswho had been working on the renovation of the famous and forbidding Royal Palace of Holyrood. Mycroft has enlisted his brother tohelp solve the murders that maybe key elements of a much moreelaborate and pernicious ploton the Queen`s lfie. Butthe circumstances of the two victims`deaths also call to Holmes` mind the terrible murder of "TheItalian Secretary," David Rizzio. Only Rizzio was murdered three centuries ago.
