In The Alienist, his acclaimed bestselling debut novel,Caleb Carr created a darkly evocative mystery set in 19th century New York. Nowhe turns his considerable imagination to the greatest fictional detective of alltime, Sherlock Holmes. Summoned from London to Edinburgh, Holmes and Dr. Watsoninvestigate two brutal killings at Holyrood Palace, and their possible link to aplot against Queen Victoria’s life. To Watson’s bafflement, Holmes finds inthe deaths a ghostly and bloody echo of the 300-year-old murder of David Rizzio,secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots.
With its marriage of taut literary suspense and rich historicaldetail, The Italian Secretary takes the Conan Doyle tradition toremarkable new heights.

Italian Secretary, The: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

CARR, Caleb

Mystery

HarperCollins, Publishers

A cryptic telegram summons Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr.Watson to Edinburgh, where the brutal killings of a renowned architect and hisforeman in the royal palace of Holyrood may be the first clues of a plot againstQueen Victoria’s life. The murders are also ghostly echos of the killing,three hundred years earlier, of the Italian secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots. 
Caleb Carr, author of the critically acclaimed The Alienist,turns his imagination across the ocean and the greatest fictional detective ofVictorian England: Sherlock Holmes. Chilling and brilliant, Caleb Carr’slatest offering has won praise for its satisfying innovation while remainingtrue to the legacy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Italian Secretary

Literature & Fiction

Harper-perennial

265 p.Responsibility:Caleb Carr.The author's first novel.

Casing the Promised Land

Harpercollins

The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

Caleb Carr's novel, The Alienest, was a blockbuster international bestseller and positioned its author as a modern master of the historical thriller. Now, in The Italian Secretary, 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...

Genre Fiction

St. Martin's: Griffin

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. 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… 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 Holyrood House 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...

Contemporary

St. Martin's Paperbacks

The #1 bestselling author of&nbsp;The Alienist tells the extraordinary story&nbsp;of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackled&nbsp;Caleb like a linebacker--and bonded with him as tightly as any cat&nbsp;and human possibly can. Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate New York did he enter into the most extraordinary of all of his cat pairings: Masha, a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten, and was languishing in a shelter when Caleb met her. She had hissed and fought off all previous carers and potential adopters, but somehow, she chose Caleb as her savior. &nbsp; For the seventeen years that followed, Caleb and Masha were inseparable. Masha ruled the house and the extensive, dangerous surrounding fields and forests. When she was hurt, only Caleb could help her. When he suffered long-standing physical ailments, Masha knew what to do. Caleb's life-long study of the literature of cat behavior, and his years of experience with previous cats, helped him decode much of Masha's inner life. But their bond went far beyond academic studies and experience. The story of Caleb and Masha is an inspiring and life-affirming relationship for readers of all backgrounds and interests--a love story like no other. &nbsp;

My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Little. Brown and Company

Make it easy on yourself!  Read Angel of Darkness in Large PrintTrade PaperbackIn one of the most critically acclaimed novels of the year, Caleb Carr-- bestselling author of The Alienist--pits Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and his colleagues against a murderer as evil as the darkest night. . . .

The Angel of Darkness

Literary

London Little, Brown 1998

A year after the events narrated in The Alienist, the cast of characters from that novel are again brought together to investigate a crime committed in the heady days of New York in the 1890s, but this time narrated by the orphan Stevie Taggert. A young child, the daughter of Spanish diplomats, disappears. It seems she has been abducted but no ransom note is received and the detectives Isaacson quickly discover that a nurse, Elspeth Hunter, is probably the kidnapper. They also discover that Hunter has been a little too closely connected with the death of three other infants. But what are her motives? She married a fortune, and although she is connected to some fairly rough villains this crime does not fit their modus operandi. Is it something as 'simple' as psychological disturbance due to her own inability to bear children, or something more sinister unguessed at?

Little,Brown & Company

Mycroft Holmes, charged with ensuring the personal safety of Queen Victoria, calls on his brother for help when a number of attempts have been made on her life and when two unexplained deaths occur amongst the staff at her Scottish residencies. Accompanied by Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes goes north by train, examining the few facts Mycroft has been able to cryptically supply. To Watson's bafflement he is sure there is a link between these deaths and the murder in the old royal apartments at Holyrood of the secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots: a killing which left a bloodstain that daily refreshes itself and in a room where voices can be heard in the darkest hours of the night. Can Holmes's extraordinary deductive powers solve the historical crime as well as the contemporary one? An original, beautifully crafted mystery story which is also a respectful homage to the master of the whodunnit.

The Italian Secretary : A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

Little Brown Hardbacks (a & C)

Killing Time

Random House, Inc.

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Italian Secretary, The: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

Italian Secretary

Casing the Promised Land

The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

The Angel of Darkness

The Angel of Darkness

The Italian Secretary : A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

Killing Time