Who should rule Russia? In an era of oligarchs and growing Russian
wealth, the issue is not irrelevant. Equally, in the late
nineteenth century, funding in university colleges was as essential
as it is now. The novel is set in St George's College, Oxford,
where mismanagement and factional rivalry have led to the urgent
need to raise funds. A Russian Grand Duke, Eugene Saltanovich, has
promised an endowment. Long resident in England, the Anglophile
Prince Rostov, a former student at the college, is invited along
with his wife, Princess Alisa, to a memorial dinner where he is to
interpret the Grand Duke's speech. The occasion turns out to be a
fiasco when the Grand Duke claims his dancing doll will save
Russia. What follows is apparently murder and an attempted coverup
that rouses the prince's suspicions. The Grand Duke's dancing doll
proves to be a fact, but the alleged presence of nuns in the
college leads the prince to realize that they offer a vital clue to
the Grand Duke's, er, great idea. Rostov is witness to a further
death, provokes a duel, finally uncovers the ambitious plan at the
heart of the cover-up and the even more startling likelihood that,
had the Grand Duke's, er, great idea worked, the history of the
twentieth century might have been completely different. Ingenious,
witty and original, The Grand Duke's, er, Great Idea is a quality
crime novel based on historical fact, but strictly of relevance to
the present day.
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