Esta serie narra la inesperada asociación entre un brillante detective retirado y una joven extraordinariamente inteligente. Juntos, abordan casos intrincados que ponen a prueba su agudeza mental y destreza deductiva. Ambientadas en el contexto de principios del siglo XX, las narrativas ofrecen misterios cautivadores con sabor histórico y duelos intelectuales. Es una versión moderna de la detección clásica que celebra el poder del intelecto femenino.
Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes' pupil and quickly hones her talent for deduction, disguises and danger. But when an elusive villain enters the picture, their partnership is put to a real test.
The dawn of 1921 finds Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes’s brilliant young apprentice, about to come into a considerable inheritance. Nevertheless, she still enjoys her nighttime prowls in disguise through London’s grimy streets, where one night she encounters an old friend, now a charity worker among the poor. Veronica Beaconsfield introduces Russell to the New Temple of God, led by the enigmatic, electrifying Margery Childe. Part suffragette, part mystic, she lives quite well for a woman of God from supposedly humble origins. Despite herself, Russell is drawn ever deeper into Childe’s circle. When Veronica has a near-fatal accident–and turns out to be the fourth bluestocking in the group to meet with misadventure after changing her will–Russell and Holmes launch a quiet investigation. But the Temple may bring the newly rich Russell far closer to heaven than she would like.…
In 1923, an amateur archaeologist brings Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes an inlaid box from the Holy Land and then promptly dies in a suspicious traffic accident that leaves the master detective and Mary with a dangerous manuscript seemingly written by Mary Magdalene. Reissue.
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In this captivating installment of the mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, the duo embarks on an unexpected journey in British-occupied Palestine at the end of 1918. Fleeing England, they arrive under the guidance of Holmes' enigmatic brother, Mycroft. Upon meeting two Arab figures, Ali and Mahmoud, they discover their involvement in a secret mission for the British government. Disguised as Bedouins, with Russell posing as the youthful "Amir," they embark on a reconnaissance mission through the region.
As they navigate the complexities of a land fraught with tension among Jews, Muslims, and Christians, a series of murders draws Holmes's attention. He insists on investigating the latest crime scene in a desert gully, leading them through bustling bazaars and perilous inns. When Holmes's inquiries put his life at risk, Russell bravely steps in, wielding a pistol and employing her wit to save him. Their adventure culminates in the historic city of Jerusalem, where they confront a formidable adversary whose ambitions threaten to devastate the sacred city and ignite conflict in the region. This tale is a masterful blend of classic Holmesian intrigue and fresh storytelling, filled with vibrant characters and rich historical detail.
Only hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving one murky riddle on the moor, another knocks on their front door...literally. It’s a mystery that begins during the Great War, when Gabriel Hughenfort died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since. But it’s not until Holmes and Russell arrive at Justice Hall, a home of unearthly perfection set in a garden modeled on Paradise, that they fully understand the irony echoed in the family motto, Justicia fortitudo mea est :A trail of ominous clues comprise a mystery that leads from an English hamlet to the city of Paris to the wild prairie of the New World. The trap is set, the game is afoot; but can Holmes and Russell catch an elusive killer--or has the murderer caught them?
It’s only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year’s visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O’Hara—the same Kimball known to the world through Kipling’s famed Kim. Inexplicably, O’Hara withdrew from the “Great Game” of espionage and now he has just as inexplicably disappeared. When Russell discovers Holmes’s own secret friendship with the spy, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But Russell soon learns that in this faraway and exotic land, it’s often impossible to tell friend from foe—and that some games aren’t played for fun but for the highest stakes of all…life and death.
Mary and Sherlock head to San Francisco to settle the Russell estate and there the trauma Mary has been suppressing since childhood starts to reassert itself.
For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex
coast after seven months abroad is a delicious anticipation. But the longed
for sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by a bitter memory from
her husband's past.
Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have stirred the wrath and the limitless resources of those they've thwarted. Now they are separated and on the run, wanted by the police, and pursued across the Continent by a ruthless enemy with powerful connections.
Sent to Lisbon and Morocco, where a British studio is creating a silent film version of "The Pirates of Penzance," Mary Russell investigates a series of crimes targeting the production and confronts a high-stakes situation when actual pirates orchestrate a hostage situation.
Mary Russell wakes up in a strange room in Morocco in man's clothing with
blood on her hands. Holmes must find her before it's too late all the while
being pulled into the growing war between France and Spain.
1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes arrive home to find a stone. The stone is inscribed with the same name that they last saw in the Tokyo garden of the future emperor of Japan. It is the first indication that the investigation they did for him a year ago might not be as complete as they had thought.In Japan there were spies; in Oxford there are dreams. In both places, there is a small, dark-haired woman, and danger . . .
1925: Mary Russell receives word that one of her friends has been committed to
Bedlam mental hospital. Feeling less than balanced herself, the last thing she
wants is to visit the mad but she agrees to investigate. When her friend
escapes, Russell follows, only to find that the lunatics may be in charge of
the asylum, and nothing is as it seems.
"Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes turn the Riviera upside-down to crack their most captivating case yet in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today." It's summertime on the Riviera, where the Jazz Age is busily reinventing the holiday delights of warm days on golden sand and cool nights on terraces and dance floors. Just up the coast lies a more traditional pleasure ground: Monte Carlo, where fortunes are won, lost, stolen, and hidden away. So when Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes happen across the Côte d'Azur in this summer of 1925, they find themselves pulled between the young and the old, hot sun and cool jazz, new friendships and old loyalties, childlike pleasures and very grownup sins.."-- Provided by publisher
"Deadly Anniversaries celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Mystery Writers of America with a collection of stories from some of the top names in crime fiction."--Provided by publisher.
