Victoire Vernet Books In Order
- Napoleon Must Die (1993)
- Death Wears a Crown (1993)
Mycroft Holmes Books In Order
- Against the Brotherhood (1997)
- Embassy Row (1998)
- The Flying Scotsman (1999)
- The Scottish Ploy (2000)
Ian Fleming Books In Order
- Death to Spies (2002)
- Siren Song (2003)
- Honor Among Spies (2004)
Novels
- Against the Brotherhood: A Mycroft Holmes Novel (2015)
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Napoleon Must Die
When her husband is unjustly accused of theft and murder in Napoleonic France, Mme. Victoire Vernet sets out to clear his name and finds herself in the middle of a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
Death Wears a Crown
On a sensitive mission for her Inspector General husband, Victoire Vernet stumbles upon a traitorous cabal intent on preventing the coronation of Napoleon.
Against the Brotherhood
Acknowledged by Sherlock Holmes himself as the smarter brother, and gifted with even greater powers of observation than the famous consulting detective, Mycroft Holmes appears in only four stories in the Canon and remains an enigmatic figure wrapped in the mysteries of international politics and conspiracies. Now, in Against the Brotherhood, we learn of Mycroft’s secrets throught the eyes of his new secretary, Patterson Guthrie, Guthrie’s upper class education has not prepared him for the rought and tumble world of international politics, nor for his encounters with the beautiful and cunning Miss Gatspy, thief, spy, assassin whatever the situation calls for. Mycroft is revealed to be a vigorous playre at world politics and international skulduggery. Against the Brotherhood is full of attempted assassinations, secret spymasters, anarchist cabals, concealed identities, double and triple agents, burglary, and sabotage, all done in true Conan Doyle style.
Embassy Row
Against the Brotherhood Forge, 1997 launched this series authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle and staring Sherlock Holmes’s older brother, Mycroft. Quinn Fawcett has revealed Mycroft as a major player in all things political, though he apparently never leaves his home in Pall Mall. Now, with Embassy Row, Fawcett brings us more skulduggery and sabotage written in true Conan Doyle style, sure to entertain both newcomers and devotees to the Holmes canon. Guthrie, Mycroft’s secretary and his Watson, is accompanying Mycroft to a series of discrete negotiations with Japanese, intended to secure England’s positions in Japanese controlled waters. But there are those on both sides who would like to see the talks come to naught, for reasons both political and radical. However, despite many setbacks, misunderstandings, and suspicious accidents, the agreement is near completion. The night the papers are to be signed and sealed, a British diplomat whose opposition to the negotiations is no secret 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.
The Flying Scotsman
To keep the peace after an attempted assassination, a Prince must be smuggled out of England aboard The Flying Scotsman, the fastest train between London and Edinburgh. Disguised as journalists, Mycroft and Patterson Guthrie, guard the Prince. Also aboard is Pauline Gatspy. Is she on Mycroft’s side, or is the Prince her latest target?
The Scottish Ploy
Featuring the most intriguing sleuth to come along since Sherlock Holmes, and a supporting cast whose loyalty and intelligence are matched only by their humor and quick reaction times, the Mycroft Holmes novels appeal to new readers and to fans of all things Holmesian. In The Scottish Ploy, seemingly unconnected events pull Mycroft in several directions at once. To prevent the leaders of an anarchist group from reaching England’s shores, Mycroft must, much to his dismay, become part of the intended reconciliation of a husband and wife. To do so he has spy networks to monitor and men of influence to, well, influence. Then there are the minor puzzles: Why is a gentleman who claims to be Turkish seeking his supposedly kidnapped brother in London? Why does an eminent phrenologist urgently want Mycroft’s opinion on the inhabitants of his asylum? Who has been following Mycroft and his estimable secretary, the amiable Paterson Guthrie, through foggy streets? What motivated the attempted assassination of an Admiralty courier on Mycroft’s own doorstep? When the lovely Penelope Gatspy saves Guthrie’s life, is it because of the attraction between them, or on orders of the mysterious ‘lodge’ she serves?But, most important to Mycroft what is behind the kidnapping of his old friend, the actor Edmund Sutton, who was in the midst of a triumphant run as Macbeth?
Death to Spies
Was Ian Fleming a master spy?After years of serving in the intelligence community, Ian Fleming retired and soon thereafter created James Bond, that debonair, dashing hero of countless novels and films. But what if Fleming never really retired from spying? What if his position as an international journalist was really a cover for Cold War cat and mouse games? In Death to Spies, Ian Fleming, master operative, steps out from the shadow of his creation to take his rightful place in the pantheon of fictional spies. Fleming’s idyll on the island of Jamaica is disrupted when a ranking member of British Intelligence shows up with a wild story of purloined nuclear secrets and moles within British Intelligence, then mysteriously disappears, apparently the victim of foul play. Investigating, Fleming faces hostility in Los Alamos where anyone not American is automatically suspect meets a glamorous, sexy woman with few scruples, and narrowly survives several attempts on his life.
Siren Song
Packed with car chases, concealed identities, and hidden truths, Siren Song showcases the imaginative inventions, sophisticated banter, and sex appeal of Ian Fleming’s own fiction. At a posh New Year’s Eve party, Flem ing falls hard and fast for the glamorous Nora. Later, operatives of British Intelligence offer him a scoop an American businessman who may be passing US secrets to Soviet Russia. He turns them away. A bomb planted in Nora’s hotel room ignites Fleming’s passions and he accompanies her to San Francisco where she will attempt to discredit the same man who was to have been Fleming’s next ‘assignment.’ In a world of concealed motives, love is a most dangerous game…
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Honor Among Spies
Once again, Quinn Fawcett brings Ian Fleming and the early Cold War to life in a fast paced novel layered with intrigue, concealed identities, perverse sexual practices, and hidden truths. Fleming and a colleague from British intelligence are receiving threatening letters containing their darkest secrets. To stop the re velations, Fleming travels to exotic New Orleans, where he meets a voodoo queen and visits the dark side of the French Quarter.
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