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The Language of Bees
Hardcover: 416 pages
Bantam
April 28, 2009
ISBN-10: 0553804545
ISBN-13: 978-0312427368 |
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Mary Russell Series in Order |
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Paperback: 384 pages
Picador
October 2, 2007
ISBN-10: 0312427360
ISBN-13: 978-0312427368 |
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While out walking on the Sussex Downs, teenage orphan Mary Russell meets her neighbor Sherlock Holmes who has retired there to devote much of his time to studying bees. |
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A Monstrous Regiment of Women
Paperback: 336 pages
Picador
October 2, 2007
ISBN-10: 0312427379
ISBN-13: 978-0312427375 |
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When Mary Russell gains her independence at the age of 21, she goes off to London to experience her liberty. There she meets a charismatic woman preacher whose inner circle of disciples are dying in accidents too numerous to be accidental. |
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A Letter of Mary
Paperback: 304 pages
Picador
October 30, 2007
ISBN-10: 0312427387
ISBN-13: 978-0312427382 |
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Shortly before being run down by a car in London, a lady archaeologist gives Mary Russell a mysterious box containing an ancient scroll that appears to be a letter written by Mary Magdalene. |
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The Moor
Paperback: 320 pages
Picador
October 30, 2007
ISBN-10: 0312427395
ISBN-13: 978-0312427399 |
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Mary Russell joins Sherlock Holmes who is staying with the aging writer Sabine Baring-Gould in Dartmoor. In the neighborhood, a suspcious gold prospector from America has bought Baskerville Hall. Meanwhile mysterious events involving a giant hound of local legend have been occurring on the moor. |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by A. Conan Doyle
Intro. by Laurie R. King
Paperback: 208 page
Modern Library
October 8, 2002
ISBN-10: 0812966066
ISBN-13: 978-0812966060 |
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O Jerusalem
Paperback: 464 pages
Bantam
Reissue edition
June 6, 2000
ISBN-10: 0553581058
ISBN-13: 978-0553581058 |
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This novel goes back in time to the period skimmed over in The Beekeeper's Apprentice when Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes leave England to escape their unknown persecutor. Sent by Mycroft to Palestine, which has recently come under British occupation, they disguise themselves as Arabs; and, accompanied by the wild Hazr brothers Ali and Mahmoud, they uncover a plot to destabilize the region. |
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Justice Hall
Paperback: 464 pages
Bantam
February 4, 2003
ISBN-10: 0553581112
ISBN-13: 978-0553581119 |
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Kindle Edition
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Just having returned home from their adventure in Dartmoor which is the subject of the novel The Moor, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are surprised by the appearance of their Arab friend Ali Hazr who asks for help and collapses at their door. |
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The Game
Paperback: 480 pages
Bantam
March 1, 2005
ISBN-10: 0553583387
ISBN-13: 978-0553583380 |
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Kindle Edition
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In 1924 Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes go to India to find the British Spy Kimball O'Hara, the person known as Kim in the novel by Rudyard Kipling. |
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