Locked Rooms: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
New York: Bantam Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 402 pp. The eighth novel in this acclaimed , best-selling series of mysteries featuring marey Russell, the young woman married by Sherlock Holmes after his retirement to the Sussex Downs to keep bees. In this entry. Mary and Sherlock depart Bombay by ship en route to San Francisco so that Mary can settle some legal affairs syrrounding her inheritance of the family's old estate. But the closer they get to port, the more Mary finds herself prey to troubling dreams and irrational behavior (a point not lost on Holmes). The cause is hidden trauma from when 6-year old Mary was in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake and fire. Complications ensue---her fathers' will restricts access to the house, Russell hersel is targeted for assassination; people from the past are discovered to have died violent, unexplained deaths. The pair are aided by a hard-bolied young detective and crime writer named Hammett. Fine / fine. Item #E32821
ISBN: 055380197X
Price: $13.95