Sherlock Holmes The Affair at Mayerling Lodge

The facts appear to leave little uncertainty about what transpired at the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling, just outside of Vienna: the tragedy is described as a "murder-suicide" or a "double suicide." And yet for a century and a half, doubts have remained -- expressed in films, plays, television series and opera -- about what actually happened the night of January 30, 1889. Why, many have wondered, did Emperor Franz Joseph not enlist the services of the noted English detective Sherlock Holmes to investigate the death of the heir to the Hapsburg throne? In fact, Holmes was in Vienna at the request of the Emperor, although neither could have predicted the tragedy that was about to occur. In this newly discovered manuscript, John H. Watson, MD, reveals for the first time the integral -- and until now -- unheralded role of the world's first private consulting detective in solving "The Affair at Mayerling Lodge." -- adapted from back cover.