Murder at the Savoy and Other Stories — Mike Hogan

Two baronets die at the Savoy Theatre under mysterious circumstances during a production of 'Patience', Gilbert and Sullivan's opera about bad baronets. Coincidence, or is an evil agency at play determined to make a hat trick of blue-blooded deaths?Holmes is challenged to a duel by an unlikely antagonist, arrested for murder, but arraigned on another , more embarrassing, charge.Holmes and Watson visit Windsor Castle to investigate the strange case of the Queen, Prince Albert and Her Majesty's ghillie, John Brown.A young heiress about to appear in The Mikado disappears from her private school. Did she run away or was she kidnapped?What cultural icons personify the Victorian era better than Holmes and Watson and Gilbert and Sullivan? They would very probably have known each other. Holmes was a music lover, and Gilbert was quarrelsome and litigious enough to need investigative help.The worlds of the Savoy Theatre and 221b Baker Street collide in these traditional stories narrated by Doctor Watson.