| Description |
ix, 356 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
King, Laurie R.
Mary Russell novel ; 01.
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| Note |
"A Thomas Dunne book." |
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"With a new introduction by the author"--Cover. |
| Summary |
In 1915, long since retired from his crime-fighting days, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybees on the Sussex Downs. Never did the Victorian detective think to meet an intellect matching his own-until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a young twentieth-century lady whose mental acuity is equaled only by her penchant for deduction, disguises, and danger. Under Holmes's reluctant tutelage, Russell embarks on a case involving a landowner's mysterious fever and the kidnapping of an American senator's daughter in the wilds of Wales. Then a near-fatal bomb on her doorstep-and another on Holmes's-sends the two sleuths on the trail of a murderer who scatters bizarre clues and seems utterly without motive. The villain's objective, however, is quite unequivocal: to end Russell and Holmes's partnership-and then their lives. |
| Subject |
Holmes, Sherlock -- Fiction.
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Russell, Mary (Fictitious character), 1900- -- Fiction.
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Private investigators -- England -- Fiction.
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Women detectives -- England -- Fiction.
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Young women -- England -- Fiction.
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England -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Mystery fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Mystery fiction.
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| Added Title |
Beekeeper's apprentice |
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On the segregation of the queen |
| ISBN |
9781250050113 |
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