Twenty years since Mary Russell stumbled over Sherlock Holmes on the Sussex Downs! This book has the added benefit of Sherlock Holmes. One of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years […] In my defence I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915. I really enjoyed this book. The book has a tricky mystery with lots of false leads and red herrings. One of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century. If you have any issues with the site, please don't hesitate to contact us. Click on any of the links above to see more books like this one.
It was a light and enjoyable read and I will be continuing with this series for sure. She lives in Sussex countryside when she comes across her reclusive neighbour who turns out to be Sherlock Holmes. The time frame is similar and both series have a plucky, very intelligent heroine. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. The Beekeeper's Apprentice By Laurie R. King - FictionDB. He is 54 when we meet him in this book. Never did he think to meet an intellect to match his own--until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell -- a very modern fifteen-year-old whose mental acuity is equaled only by her audacity, tenacity, and penchant for trousers and cloth caps, unthinkable in any young lady of Holmes's own generation. The book goes back and forth between Oxford and Sussex and even over to Palestine while Holmes and his apprentice try to track a particularly cold-blooded, but intelligent adversary.
Mary Russell is a young 16 year old girl when we meet her, and World War I is raging in Europe. When the book ends Mary is a student at Oxford and she is 19 years old. Award-winning, bestselling, thought-provoking mysteries. With a new author foreword, Beekeeper’s Apprentice Classroom Study Guide, 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century. More about us. The plot is tight and moves along at a good pace. In 1915, long since retired from his observations of criminal humanity, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. My kind of mystery for sure. The Beekeeper's Apprentice, the first in her Mary Russell series, was nominated for an Agatha Award and was named one of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Another added benefit, just as in the Amelia Peabody series, Ms. King uses superlative language and grammar skills. The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Or On the Segregation of the Queen is the first book in the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King.It was nominated for the Agatha best novel award and was deemed a Notable Young Adult book by the American Library Association. I really enjoyed this book. To celebrate, a new hardback edition of the beloved first Memoir, with a foreword by Miss Russell’s “literary agent”, Laurie R. King. A Monstrous Regiment of Women won the Nero Wolfe Award. View the Complete Laurie R. King Book List, This page may contain affiliate links and advertising. Twentieth Anniversary Edition, 2014 See the, Mystery & Detective - Traditional British. The Beekeeper's Apprentice: (Mary Russell Series 1) Laurie R. King, 1994 Picacodor 384 pp. She is an orphan who has been living with her aunt since she lost her parents in an accident in the United States. Cover art, synopsis, sequels, reviews, awards, publishing history, genres, and time period. I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. To celebrate, a new hardback edition of the beloved first Memoir, with a foreword by Miss Russell’s “literary agent”, Laurie R. King. Twenty years since Mary Russell stumbled over Sherlock Holmes on the Sussex Downs!
FictionDB is committed to providing the best possible fiction reference information. Ms. King captures the aging sleuth just as I would have imagined him in his later years. ISBN-13: 9780312427368 Summary In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees when a young woman literally stumbles into him on the Sussex Downs. In my seven weeks of peripatetic reading amongst the sheep (which tended to move out of my way) and the gorse bushes (to which I had painfully developed an instinctive awareness) I had never before stepped on a person. The way it was written reminded me so much of my loved Amelia Peabody series.
I truly enjoy a book that is written as intelligently as this one is. She captures her time and her characters very well.