Diese Serie schildert die unerwartete Partnerschaft zwischen einem brillanten, pensionierten Detektiv und einer bemerkenswert intelligenten jungen Frau. Gemeinsam nehmen sie komplexe Fälle an, die ihren scharfen Verstand und ihre deduktiven Fähigkeiten auf die Probe stellen. Vor dem Hintergrund des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts bieten die Erzählungen fesselnde Mysterien mit historischem Flair und intellektuellen Schlagabtäuschen. Es ist eine moderne Interpretation klassischer Detektivgeschichten, die die Kraft weiblicher Intelligenz feiert.
Sherlock Holmes lebt 1914 als Bienenzüchter in Sussex und trifft auf die junge Mary Russell. Fasziniert von ihrer Intelligenz, bringt er sie in die Detektivarbeit ein. Bald steht er einer alten Feindin gegenüber, die ihm nach dem Leben trachtet.
London 1921: Als Mary Russell eine alte Studienkollegin wiedertrifft, berichtet die ihr begeistert von einer neuen Glaubensgemeinschaft ausschließlich für Frauen. Margery Childe, die Gründerin, ist charismatisch und redegewandt; die reichen Damen laufen ihr in Scharen zu. Dann wird die Sekretärin des Vereins tot aufgefunden. Marys Jagdtrieb erwacht, als sie herausfindet, dass das nicht der erste Todesfall im "Neuen Tempel Gottes" war. Aber sie muss sich alleine an die Ermittlungen machen, denn ihr Lehrer Sherlock Holmes ist spurlos verschwunden.
Mary Russell und Sherlock Holmes, der wohl eingeschworenste Junggeselle der Weltliteratur, haben geheiratet. Aber statt die Familienidylle zu pflegen, ist das Paar wieder mit einem Mordfall beschäftigt. Die angesehene Archäologin Dorothy Ruskin wird das Opfer eines kaltblütigen Verbrechens. Mußte die resolute Frau sterben, weil sie sich im Besitz einer mysteriösen Papyrusrolle befand, die anscheinend von der biblischen Maria Magdalena stammte.
Sherlock Holmes und seine Frau Mary Russell reisen 1923 nach Dartmoor, um dem Gerücht über einen einäugigen Hund nachzugehen. Bei ihren Ermittlungen entdecken sie Gold und stoßen auf mehrere Leichen.
Forced to flee England, Sherlock Holmes and his young apprentice Mary Russell enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes's enigmatic brother, Mycroft. Their arrival coincides with a rash of unsolved murders that has baffled the authorities.
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?
From the award-winning author of "Justice Hall" and "Folly" comes this "New York Times" bestselling novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes.
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 . . .
The brand-new adventure featuring the much-loved duo Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.
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.
Laurie R. King illuminates the hidden corners of her beloved Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series in this dynamic short story collection.