Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Locked Rooms: Locked Rooms: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Book 8, (Paperback)

from bearette24

This is one of the better entries in the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series. Russell and Holmes make their way to San Francisco, after a trip to India, to unearth secrets about Russell's past and find out why she is having mysterious dreams about "locked rooms". The rooms in question turn out no...

from Capnrandm

I don't recall past Russell novels providing such an intimate glimpse of Holmes point of view, and while it was frustrating experiencing a tiny bit of Russell's distress, King balances this beautifully with Holmes' methodical yet concerned perspective. It's a delicate business imaging the rigidly...

from gmathis

This is my favorite of the series. Not only do we finally piece together some of the details of Mary Russell's pre-Holmes days, there's a nicely done departure in narration that presents part of the story from Holmes' viewpoint. We also get to meet a young and appealing Dashiell Hammett...a nice ...

from MrsLee

O joy! I found another Mary Russell book and read it all in one day. Who could put it down? Wonderful author and this book had San Francisco as the center fo action, also the 1906 earthquake and fire. Excellent. Love how she weaves other famous detectives or authors into these stories.

from rretzler

Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have finished their stay in India and are traveling to San Francisco so that Russell can visit her inherited holdings there. On the way, Russell begins to have recurring nightmares which Holmes believes have something to do with her childhood in San ...