![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() King's A Letter of Mary delights me as much as its two predecessors. 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. Chicago TribuneĪ lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company. “An intellectual puzzler, full of bright red herrings and dazzling asides. Intriguing marriage of the author's background in theological study and a cracking good mystery!" ![]() this book was my own personal Holy Grail. "A mystery lover and a student of religion. A Letter of Mary is brimming with political intrigue, theological arcana, and brilliant Holmesian deductions. When Ruskin is suddenly killed in a tragic accident, Russell and Holmes find themselves on the trail of a fiendishly clever murderer. 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. 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. The third book in the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series. ![]()
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