Binding: Paperback
Description: The Twentieth - Anniversary Edition of the First Novel of the Acclaimed Mary Russell Series by Edgar Award Winning Author Laurie R. King. An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old gawky egotistical and recently orphaned the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage this very modern twentieth - century woman proves a deft prot g e and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. They are soon called to Wales to help Scotland Yard find the kidnapped daughter of an American senator a case of international significance with clues that dip deep into Holmes's past. Full of brilliant deduction disguises and danger The Beekeeper's Apprentice the first book of the Mary Russell Sherlock Holmes mysteries is "remarkably beguiling" (The Boston Globe).
Title: The Beekeeper's Apprentice Or On The Segregation Of The Queen
Author(s): King Laurie R.
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250055705
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/27/2014
Series: A Mary Russell Mystery