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absorbing novel steeped in exquisite understanding and charming intelligence.
In 1914, a bold young American named Mary Russell meets a retired beekeeper in the English countryside. His name is Sherlock Holmes. And although many years have passed since he astonished Watson by solving Scotland Yard's most baffling
crimes, the Great Detective is no fool. He instantly spots a fellow intellect in Mary.
When his greatest enemy returns with a fiendishly resourceful plan for revenge, Holmes knows he faces the case of his lifetime—and that he needs Mary's help to solve it.
Few writers dare to touch the classic canon of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, and even fewer match the legendary style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But in this richly entertaining, enchanting novel, Laurie R. King succeeds with astonishing brilliance and originality.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781705075968
- File size: 388676 KB
- Duration: 13:29:44
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Megan Follows gives a superb dramatic performance of the story of Mary Russell, brilliant Oxford student, and her friendship and working relationship with Sherlock Holmes, who has retired to the English countryside as a beekeeper. Reading with spirit and enthusiasm, Follows captures Holmes's acerbity and brilliance, Mary's wit and intelligence, and Watson's affability through the voices she creates for each character. Her expression of the emotional highs and lows they experience while searching for the person behind a plot to kill Holmes and Russell heightens the suspense. This production is the audio equivalent of a genuine "page-turner." Follows also reads the sequel, A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN. M.A.M. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine -
Many have used Holmes's compelling character since he sprang from Doyle's imagination. King's pairing of him with a young female sleuth named Mary is brilliant and effective. The reader becomes immediately caught up in the adventure, which is told in the first person. Holmes trains Mary to use his uncanny methods of detection in a saga that moves across time and culture. The multitude of disguises the duo adopts hands a real challenge to the narrator. Sterlin is wonderful; each character sounds perfect, and the text of the story flows easily. King imbues Holmes with the emotional life that Doyle ignored, and Sterlin is believable even to those familiar with the "original" Holmes. S.G.B. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
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January 3, 1994
Sherlock Holmes takes on a young, female apprentice in this delightful and well-wrought addition to the master detective's casework. In the early years of WW I, 15-year-old American Mary Russell encounters Holmes, retired in Sussex Downs where Conan Doyle left him raising bees. Mary, an orphan rebelling against her guardian aunt's strictures, impresses the sleuth with her intelligence and acumen. Holmes initiates her into the mysteries of detection, allowing her to participate in a few cases when she comes home from her studies at Oxford. The collaboration is ignited by the kidnapping in Wales of Jessica Simpson, daughter of an American senator. The sleuthing duo find signs of the hand of a master criminal, and after Russell rescues the child, attempts are made on their lives (and on Watson's), with evidence piling up that the master criminal is out to get Holmes and all he holds dear. King ( A Grave Talent ) has created a fitting partner for the Great Detective: a quirky, intelligent woman who can hold her own with a man renowned for his contempt for other people's thought processes.
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