Mary Russell #9
Bantam
May 2009
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Featuring: Mary Russell; Sherlock Holmes
432 pages ISBN: 0553804545 EAN: 9780553804546 Kindle: B001NLKTJM Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husbandβs storied pastβa painful and personal defeat that still has the power to stingβ¦this time fatally.
For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad was especially sweet. There was even a mystery to solveβthe unexplained disappearance of an entire colony of bees from one of Holmesβs beloved hives. But the anticipated sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by a galling memory from her husbandβs past.
Mary had met Damian Adler only once before, when the promising surrealist painter had been charged withβand exonerated fromβmurder. Now the talented and troubled young man was enlisting their help again, this time in a desperate search for his missing wife and child. When it comes to communal behavior, Russell has often observed that there are many kinds of madness. And before this case yields its shattering solution, sheβll come into dangerous contact with a fair number of them.
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