The Flying Scotsman (A Mycroft Holmes novel) - Hardcover

Fawcett, Quinn

 
9780312863647: The Flying Scotsman (A Mycroft Holmes novel)

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Set aboard a speeding train, packed with villains and heroes, this tale, written in true Conan Doyle style, opens with a wedding and an attempted assassination that brings several nations to the brink of war. Mycroft and Guthrie are charged with smuggling the Prince safely back to his own country. But is the assassin already aboard the train?

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"Quinn Fawcett's fluent prose captures a wealth of detail without slowing down the proceedings. The Brotherhood's ruthlessness is both shocking and convincing; the period details of travel, lodging, and communication are richly conveyed. Absorbing". Publishing Weekly

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The Flying Scotsman opens with a wedding -- and an attempted assassination that brings several nations to the brink of war. To keep the peace a Prince must be smuggled back to his own country aboard the Flying Scotsman, the fastest train between London and Edinburgh.Disguised as journalists, Mycroft and his secretary, Paterson Guthrie, are charged with the Prince's safety. Also aboard the train are Pauline Gatspy, an anarchist, and Sir Cameron Macmillan, with whom Mycroft and Guthrie have tangled before. Is one of them the assassin, or do they have innocent motives for traveling on the luxurious train?

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ISBN 10:  0312876890 ISBN 13:  9780312876890
Verlag: St Martin's Press, 2000
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