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A Letter of Mary: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

The Mary Russell Series, Book 3

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A Letter of Mary: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

Written by: Laurie R. King
Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
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The third book in the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series.

It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when they are visited by an old friend, Miss Dorothy Ruskin, an archeologist just returned from Palestine. She leaves in their protection an ancient manuscript which seems to hint at the possibility that Mary Magdalene was an apostle—an artifact certain to stir up a storm of biblical proportions in the Christian establishment. When Ruskin is suddenly killed in a tragic accident, Russell and Holmes find themselves on the trail of a fiendishly clever murderer. A Letter of Mary is brimming with political intrigue, theological arcana, and brilliant Holmesian deductions.

©1996 Laurie R. King (P)2007 Recorded Books Detective Fiction Historical Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Mystery Sherlock Holmes Suspense

What the critics say

“An intellectual puzzler, full of bright red herrings and dazzling asides.” —Chicago Tribune

“Superb . . . The great marvel of King's series is that she's managed to preserve the integrity of Holmes's character and yet somehow conjure up a woman astute, edgy, and compelling enough to be the partner of his mind as well as his heart.” —The Washington Post

“Elegant . . . Laurie R. King continues to inhabit Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes character like an inspired actor, faithful to the role yet adding so much of her own that he becomes far more than the sum of his quirks.” —San Jose Mercury News

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Delicately written great suspense

I was very curious about their married life in terms of solving the case. They live up to my satisfaction.
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