Started: 1/11/07
Finished: 1/12/07
Year: 2005
Pages: 338
Genre: Mystery
Grade: B-
Reason for reading: love the author, grabbed it off the TBR shelf
Blurb (from the back cover): "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...
"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..."
Opinion: I didn't enjoy this book as much as I've enjoyed other Carr books. Probably because it was based on Sherlock Holmes and I wasn't expecting it. But it was well written in a similar style to Doyle's original Holmes stories. Still worth reading.
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