A Letter of Mary: A Mary Russell Novel - Softcover

King, Laurie R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553577808 ISBN 13: 9780553577808

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

In 1923, an amateur archaeologist brings Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes an inlaid box from the Holy Land and then promptly dies in a suspicious traffic accident that leaves the master detective and Mary with a dangerous manuscript seemingly written by Mary Magdalene. Reissue.

About this title

Review:

‘Crime fiction’s most unlikely but utterly credible romance... Laurie King is the most interesting writer to emerge on the American crime fiction front in recent years’
Val McDermid (of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice)

‘An inventive variation on the Sherlock Holmes myth’
Time Out

From the Back Cover:

The third novel in Laurie King's riveting and intelligent series featuring Sherlock Holmes and his partner in sleuthing, Mary Russell.

It is August 1923 and all is quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex. Mary Russell works on academic research while Sherlock Holmes conducts malodorous chemistry experiments. Butthe peace comes crashing down when a figure from Mary's past enters their lives: Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archaeologist recently returned from the Holy Land, pays the couple a visit, bringing with her a gift – a charming inlaid box containing a tattered roll of stained papyrus.

The evening following their meeting, Miss Ruskin dies in a traffic accident that Holmes and Mary soon prove was murder. But what was the motivation? Was it the inlaid box holding the manuscript? Or the woman's involvement in the volatile politics of the Holy Land? Or could it have been the scroll itself, a deeply troubling letter apparently written by Mary Magdalene that contains a biblical bombshell ...

"A beguilding variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels."
LITERARY REVIEW

"Mary Russell combines the quirky intellect of her mentor with a modern modus operandi... A heroine to contend with."
TIME OUT

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0553577808
• ISBN 13: 9780553577808
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 315