Sherlock Holmes takes on a young, female apprentice in this delightful and
well-wrought addition to the master detective's casework. In the early years
of WW I, 15-year-old American Mary Russell encounters Holmes, retired in
Sussex Downs where Conan Doyle left him raising bees. Mary, an orphan
rebelling against her guardian aunt's strictures, impresses the sleuth with
her intelligence and acumen. Holmes initiates her into the mysteries of
detection, allowing her to participate in a few cases when she comes home
from her studies at Oxford. The collaboration is ignited by the kidnapping
in Wales of Jessica Simpson, daughter of an American senator. The sleuthing
duo find signs of the hand of a master criminal, and after Russell rescues
the child, attempts are made on their lives (and on Watson's), with evidence
piling up that the master criminal is out to get Holmes and all he holds dear.
King ( A Grave Talent ) has created a fitting partner for the Great Detective:
a quirky, intelligent woman who can hold her own with a man renowned for his
contempt for other people's thought processes.

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