Binding: Paperback
Description: Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award 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 in A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King.
Title: A Monstrous Regiment Of Women A Novel Of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell And Sherlock Holmes
Author(s): King Laurie R.
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9780312427375
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/2/2007
Series: A Mary Russell Mystery