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A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN: MARY RUSSELL & SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES BY LAURIE R KING PUBLISHED BY ALLISON & BUSBY 1921. Mary Russell is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Her most baffling mystery may now involve Holmes and the deeper affection that grows between them. Russell’s attentions turn to the New Temple of God and its leader, Margery Childe, a charismatic suffragette and a mystic, whose draw on the young theology scholar is irresistible. But when four bluestockings from the Temple turn up dead shortly after changing their wills, could sins of a capital nature be afoot? THE MURDER OF MARY RUSSELL: MARY RUSSELL & SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES BY LAURIE R KING PUBLISHED BY ALLISON & BUSBY Mary Russell is used to her own dark secrets, and those of Sherlock Holmes. After 10 years together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond. But what of the third member of the Holmes household: Mrs Hudson? Blood on the floor, the smell of gunshot in the air, all point to Clara Hudson, or rather, at Clarissa, her name before Baker Street. To uncover the crime, Holmes must push deep into his housekeeper’s secrets, to a time before her disguise was assumed, before her crimes were buried away. There is death here, and murder, and trust betrayed. LOCKED ROOMS: MARY RUSSELL & SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES BY LAURIE R KING PUBLISHED BY ALLISON & BUSBY 1924. San Francisco is booming, but the closer Mary comes to the place she used to call home, the more troubling her dreams become. As Russell and Holmes, attempt to settle their affairs in the City, a mysterious stranger is waiting for the pair, and may be the only one who holds the key to the locked rooms that have been haunting Mary’s dreams. In Locked Rooms, the 1920s are portrayed in exuberant detail and your attention will be locked in its pages until the very end. RIVIERA GOLD: MARY RUSSELL & SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES BY LAURIE R KING PUBLISHED BY ALLISON & BUSBY It’s summertime on the Riviera, where the Jazz Age is busily reinventing the holiday delights of warm days on golden sand and cool nights on terraces and dance floors. Just up the coast lies a more traditional pleasure ground: Monte Carlo, where fortunes are won, lost, stolen, and hidden away. So when Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes happen across the Cote d’Azur in this summer of 1925, they find themselves pulled between the young and the old, hot sun and cool jazz, new friendships and old loyalties, childlike pleasures and very grownup sins...