Embassy Row (A Mycroft Holmes novel) - Softcover

Fawcett, Quinn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812545222 ISBN 13: 9780812545227

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 1999

Synopsis

Paterson Guthrie, Mycroft Holmes's secretary, is accompanying his employer to secret negotiations with the Japanese, intended to secure England's position in Japanese-controlled waters. But many highly placed Englishmen do not wish to ally themselves with a people they consider inferior, and the Japanese are wary of close ties with a society they find increasingly hostile. And why is the flirtatious Miss Gatspy, sometime spy, sometime assassin, lurking around the embassy -- is she after information, or Guthrie?Despite misunderstandings and suspicious "accidents, " the agreement is near completion. But the night the papers are to be signed and sealed, a British diplomat firmly opposed to the negotiations is found dead with a Japanese dagger in his back. Mycroft and Guthrie must solve his murder, expose the agitators behind it, and see to the finalization of the agreement -- without finding themselves on the wrong end of the knife.

About this title

Synopsis:

First published in 1999, Paterson Guthrie - Mycroft Holmes' secretary and his Watson - is accompanying Mycroft to a series of discrete negotiations with the Japanese intended to secure England's position in Japanese-controlled waters. The night the papers are to be signed, a British diplomat is found dead...with a Japanese dagger in his back.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0812545222
• ISBN 13: 9780812545227
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384