![]() But a young girl is involved, and a beautiful queen. When Queen Marie calls, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are as dubious as they are reluctant. But this is a land of long memory and hidden corners, a land that had known Vlad the Impaler, a land from whose churchyards the shades creep. Shadowy figures, vague whispers, the fears of girls, dangers that may only be accidents. The castle was a gift to Queen Marie, a thanks from her people, and she loves it as she loves her own children. The castle is Bran: a tall, quirky, ancient structure perched on high rocks overlooking the border between Roumania and its newly-regained territory of Transylvania. A famous beauty, married at seventeen into Roumania’s young dynasty, Marie went on to beguile the Paris Peace Conference into returning her adopted country’s long-lost provinces, single-handedly transforming Roumania from a backwater into a force. The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter to Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia. A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat-the latest adventure of Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.
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