King, Laurie R

Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, investigate a death at Dartmoor and sightings of a phantom coach on the moor.

When Sherlock Holmes is summoned to solve an eerie murder at Baskerville Hall, the research skills of his independent young wife enhance his already superior powers.

Mary Russell, an intelligent young woman, becomes the apprentice of Sherlock Holmes.

When the novel opens, the shabby carpet of 221B Baker Street is drenched in blood--and no one knows the fate of Mary Russell...including her husband Sherlock Holmes. Will his wife become his latest mystery? And will he be able to solve it without her help?.

It is a normal afternoon in Sussex when Russell and Holmes return home to find a peculiar addition to their garden: a beautiful stone that once occupied the Imperial Gardens in Kyoto, Japan. The stone immediately recalls the spring of 1924, when, on their way back from India (The Game), Russell and Holmes agreed to perform a small but exceedingly dangerous job for the emperor of Japan. At the time, Russell encountered a young Japanese woman on board their ship who tutored the two foreigners about her country and guided them into a secret meeting with the Prince Regent himself. Now, when Russell heads for Oxford to resume her long-delayed studies, she comes face-to-face with that very same young Japanese woman. Mary quickly realizes Miss Sato Haruki is not all that she seems.

Mary Russell, wife of Sherlock Holmes, investigates the murder of their archeologist friend, Dorothy Ruskin, who had given them an inlaid box with a tattered roll of papyrus inside, supposedly written by Mary Magdalene.

In 1915 Sherlock Holmes is retired and living quietly as he undertakes a study of honeybees in Sussex. Fifteen-year-old Mary Russell literally stumbles upon him as he is working with the bees. As Mary gets to know Holmes, she displays an intellect that impresses even the Victorian detective---no easy feat. Soon they are asked to investigate the kidnapping of the daughter of an American senator, a crime of national significance that proves to have clues that dip deeply into Holmes' past.

In a strange room in Morocco, Mary Russell is trying to solve the mystery of who she is. She has awakened to find blood and soldiers pounding on the door. She finds she is clothed like a man and armed only with her wits and a scrap of paper containing a mysterious Arabic phrase. As she flees to the streets she finds herself strangely adept in the skills of the underworld. Meanwhile, in the ancient city of Fez, Sherlock Holmes finds himself pulled into the growing war between France, Spain, and the Rif Revolt, which is led by a man who may be a Robin Hood or a power-mad tribesman. As Holmes searches for Mary, and Mary searches for herself, each tries to crack deadly parallel puzzles before it's too late.

Mary Russell returns to Sussex with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and is reunited with Damian Adler, who seeks Russell's help to locate his missing wife and child, which leads Russell onto the trail of a killer.