A Letter of Mary
Author: King, Laurie
ISBN: 9780006510857
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 352
Dimensions: 180mm x 115mm x 22mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Third in Laurie King’s popular Mary Russell crime series: ‘Beguiling variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels…civilised, ingenious and engrossing’ – Literary Review
August, 1923. The quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex is shaken when Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archaeologist from the Holy Land, appears with an exquisite inlaid box containing a scrap of ancient writing. Miss Ruskin soon dies in a traffic accident that Holmes and Mary prove was murder. But what was the motivation? Was it the little inlaid box holding the manuscript? Or the woman’s involvement in the volatile politics of the Holy Land? Or could it have been the manuscript itself – a letter seemingly written by Mary Magdalene that contains a biblical bombshell.
Beautifully written and steeped in authentic period detail, A Letter of Mary is a fascinating and intelligent read.
ISBN: 9780006510857
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 352
Dimensions: 180mm x 115mm x 22mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Third in Laurie King’s popular Mary Russell crime series: ‘Beguiling variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels…civilised, ingenious and engrossing’ – Literary Review
August, 1923. The quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex is shaken when Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archaeologist from the Holy Land, appears with an exquisite inlaid box containing a scrap of ancient writing. Miss Ruskin soon dies in a traffic accident that Holmes and Mary prove was murder. But what was the motivation? Was it the little inlaid box holding the manuscript? Or the woman’s involvement in the volatile politics of the Holy Land? Or could it have been the manuscript itself – a letter seemingly written by Mary Magdalene that contains a biblical bombshell.
Beautifully written and steeped in authentic period detail, A Letter of Mary is a fascinating and intelligent read.
