Nicholas Segalla Books

She was a passionate lover. Was she also a murderess? Edinburgh, 1567. Like an angel of mercy, beautiful Mary, Queen of Scots nurses her ill husband before suddenly leaving his bedside to attend the wedding festivities of her maid of honor. Hours later, the calm night is shattered by a devastating explosion. The king's body is found in a field with a cloak, a chair, a slipper and a dagger by his lifeless corpse. Incredibly, there is not a mark on him. For a queen besieged by her enemies, it was the hour of her darkest danger... Scotland, land of wild moors and pagan passion is swept by violence and bloodshed. When stolen letters cast suspicion on the queen herself, she is accused of murder. Only the shadowy scholar Nicholas Segalla, a man who has solved many of history's most famous murders, can uncover the truth. Was the fiery Mary the perpetrator of the King's bloody murder, or the object of a ruthless plot of betrayal, crafted by England's most masterful assassin, the Raven Master?

The British government sends enigmatic emissary Nicholas Segalla to France in order to uncover the truth about the fate of the young Dauphin, held prisoner in the Temple where his mother Marie Antoinette spent her last days, after rumors spread about his escape. Reprint.

Nicholas Segalla journeys back in time to Vienna in 1889 to uncover the truth about the supposed murder and suicide of Archduke Rudolph, heir to the Hapsburg throne, and his beautiful young mistress, Maria Vetsera, at Mayerling.

Scholar and diplomat Nicholas Segalla investigates the possibility that Queen Mary is being poisoned by one of her many rivals