The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King

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The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King

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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. Martin's Press.

From the Inside Flap
In 1915, long since retired from his crime-fighting days, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybees on the Sussex Downs. Never did the Victorian detective think to meet an intellect matching his own?until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a young twentieth-century lady whose mental acuity is equaled only by her penchant for deduction, disguises, and danger. Under Holmes?s reluctant tutelage,

Russell embarks on a case involving a landowner?s mysterious fever and the kidnapping of an American senator?s daughter in the wilds of Wales. Then a near-fatal bomb on her doorstep?and another on Holmes?s?sends the two sleuths on the trail of a murderer who scatters bizarre clues and seems utterly without motive. The villain?s objective, however, is quite unequivocal: to end Russell and Holmes?s partnership?and then their lives.

About the Author
Laurie R. King is the Edgar AwardÂ-winning author of four contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, eight acclaimed Mary Russell mysteries, and four stand-alone novels, including the highly praised A Darker Place. She lives in northern California.