A Monstrous Regiment of Women: A puzzling mystery for Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes) - Softcover

King, Laurie R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749014997 ISBN 13: 9780749014995

Verlag: Allison & Busby, 2014

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It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology - is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independent at last, with a passion for divinity and detective work, her most baffling mystery may now involve Holmes and the burgeoning of a deeper affection between herself and the retired detective. Russell's attentions turn to the New Temple of God and its leader, Margery Childe, a charismatic suffragette and a mystic, whose draw on the young theology scholar is irresistible., But when four bluestockings from the Temple turn up dead shortly after changing their wills, could sins of a capital nature be afoot? Holmes and Russell investigate, as their partnership takes a surprising turn.

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Crime fiction s most unlikely but utterly credible romance... Laurie King is the most interesting writer to emerge on the American crime fiction front in recent years

--Val McDermid

Brilliantly written

--T. J. Binyon, Evening Standard (of The Birth of a New Moon)

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It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independent at last her most baffling mystery may now involve Holmes and the burgeoning of a deeper affection between herself and the retired detective. Russell's attentions turn to the New Temple of God and its leader, Margery Childe, a charismatic suffragette and a mystic, whose draw on the young theology scholar is irresistible. But when four bluestockings from the Temple turn up dead shortly after changing their wills, could sins of a capital nature be afoot?

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• Verlag: Allison & Busby
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0749014997
• ISBN 13: 9780749014995
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320