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June, 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are enjoying a well-needed relaxing summer evening in their home on the Sussex Downs. However, Russell soon receives a desperate telephone call from an old friend. Veronica's aunt, Lady Vivian Beaconsfield, has disappeared following a supervised outing from Bethlem Royal Hospital. With Russell herself feeling less than balanced, the last thing she wants to deal with is the mad; however, she agrees to investigate.Having spent most of her adult life in and out of one asylum after another, Lady Beaconsfield at last seemed to be adjusting to her confinement at Bethlem. So why did she disappear? And why is there no trace of the nurse who accompanied her?In their search for the missing women, Russell and Holmes follow the trail from the cold, harsh wards of the hospital through to the ethereal beauty of Venice. Caught up in decadent soirees, the rising tide of fascism and the myth of a haunted madhouse, the pair will discover that there are secrets hidden in the lagoon and nothing is quite as it seems.
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When the aunt of a friend disappears, Mary Russell and her detective husband, Sherlock Holmes step in to help find out what when wrong! But the path to the answer is going to lead from England to Italy, and take a few dramatic turns along the way...
I will admit, when I first started this book, I felt it dragged in the beginning so I set it down. However, I needed something to read and the story quickly picked up, dragging me to where, I now have a book hangover! This is a fun read, and one that is going to lead to a few surprising twists and turns, and leave you wondering what is really going on!
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18 primary books24 released booksMary Russell and Sherlock Holmes is a 25-book series with 18 primary works first released in 1994 with contributions by Laurie R. King, Marcia Muller, and Bill Pronzini.
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