The Beekeeper's Apprentice
by Laurie R. King
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.
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.
FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_HISTORICALPRIVATE INVESTIGATORS_FICTIONENGLAND_FICTIONYOUNG WOMEN_FICTIONFICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_WOMEN SLEUTHSRUSSELL, MARY (FICTITIOUS CHARACTER)_FICTION
RELEASED2002
PUBLISHERBantam
LENGTH384
LANGUAGEEN
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
by Laurie R. King
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.
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.
FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_HISTORICALPRIVATE INVESTIGATORS_FICTIONENGLAND_FICTIONYOUNG WOMEN_FICTIONFICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_WOMEN SLEUTHSRUSSELL, MARY (FICTITIOUS CHARACTER)_FICTIONHOLMES, SHERLOCK (FICTITIOUS CHARACTER)_FICTION
RELEASED2002
PUBLISHERBantam
LENGTH384
LANGUAGEEN