Goodnight Sweet Prince

Scandal, blackmail and murder in the court of Queen Victoria. England 1892, Queen Victoria is in the 54th year of her reign. Prince Eddy, the profligate eldest son of the Prince of Wales, is found slaughtered in his bed. Terrified of further scandal, the Prince of Wales and his spin-doctors decide on a cover-up and the royal murder is disguised as death by influenza. Lord Francis Powerscourt, an Irish investigator, is secretly commanded to find the killer. He is soon immersed in the murky depths of Prince Eddy's debauched and dissolute past. The quest takes him to the misty waterways of Venice where, amidst scandal and suicide. Powerscourt finally unravels the mystery of the prince's last goodnight.