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The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King
Title: The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Author: Laurie R. King
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 7/10
# pages: 367
Date read: March, 2007
Summary: In 1915, long since retired from his crime-fighting days, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybees on the Sussex Downs. Never did the Victorian detective think to meet an intellect matching his own - until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a young twentieth-century lady whose mental acuity is equaled only by her penchant for deduction, disguises, and danger. Under Holmes' reluctant tutelage,
Russell embarks on a case involving a landowner's mysterious fever and the kidnapping of an American senator's daughter in the wilds of Wales. Then a near-fatal bomb on her doorstep - and another on Holmes's - sends the two sleuths on the trail of a murderer who scatters bizarre clues and seems utterly without motive. The villain's objective, however, is quite unequivocal: to end Russell and Holmes' partnership - and then their lives.
Review: I think I've read all of one Sherlock Holmes story before this, but when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dragongoddess gave me a personalized recommendation of this book, I knew I had to check it out. It was quite good. I found it a lot easier to relate to Mary Russell than to either Holmes or Watson which made for more interesting reading. However, I prefer books where I (as the reader) have as big a chance of figuring out the puzzle as the people in the book do, instead of having the characters explain everything to me. Laurie King is not nearly as bad at this as, say Agatha Christie, but there were still some cases where I would have prefered to be shown rather than told.
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Author: Laurie R. King
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 7/10
# pages: 367
Date read: March, 2007
Summary: In 1915, long since retired from his crime-fighting days, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybees on the Sussex Downs. Never did the Victorian detective think to meet an intellect matching his own - until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a young twentieth-century lady whose mental acuity is equaled only by her penchant for deduction, disguises, and danger. Under Holmes' reluctant tutelage,
Russell embarks on a case involving a landowner's mysterious fever and the kidnapping of an American senator's daughter in the wilds of Wales. Then a near-fatal bomb on her doorstep - and another on Holmes's - sends the two sleuths on the trail of a murderer who scatters bizarre clues and seems utterly without motive. The villain's objective, however, is quite unequivocal: to end Russell and Holmes' partnership - and then their lives.
Review: I think I've read all of one Sherlock Holmes story before this, but when
dragongoddess gave me a personalized recommendation of this book, I knew I had to check it out. It was quite good. I found it a lot easier to relate to Mary Russell than to either Holmes or Watson which made for more interesting reading. However, I prefer books where I (as the reader) have as big a chance of figuring out the puzzle as the people in the book do, instead of having the characters explain everything to me. Laurie King is not nearly as bad at this as, say Agatha Christie, but there were still some cases where I would have prefered to be shown rather than told.Book List