Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or On The Segregation Of The Queen - A Novel Of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell And Sherlock Holmes

Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or On The Segregation Of The Queen - A Novel Of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell And Sherlock Holmes

An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the IndependentMystery Booksellers Association From New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book that introduced us to the ingenious Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles into his lap on the Sussex downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern twentieth-century woman proves a deft protge, and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. This first book of the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries is full of brilliant deduction, disguises, and danger.