The moor : a Mary Russell novel / Laurie R. King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Laurie R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holmes, Sherlock--Fiction.

Holmes, Sherlock.

Russell, Mary (Fictitious character), 1900---Fiction.

Russell, Mary (Fictitious character), 1900-.

Genre:

Mystery fiction.

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

307 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Summary:

In re-creating Sherlock Holmes in previous books as an adjunct to her chief protagonist, Mary Russell, King has set the couple's adventures in a milieu consistent with her own creation and, although true to the place and period, independent of Conan Doyle's work. Holmes has been invited by his old friend the Rev. Baring-Gould to look into not only an unexplained death on the moor but, more important in the ancient cleric's mind, sightings of a phantom coach on the moor - possibly inhabited by a phantom noblewoman and accompanied by some phantom dogs. Holmes, in turn, pulls Mary from her studies at Oxford, enlists her in the quest, and finds himself taking a second seat to her endeavors. True to their expectations on the forbidding and difficult moor, the rumors have a real-world explanation, but it is one that combines more wild emotion, surprise, and frightening suspense than any ghost story could.

Notes:

"A Thomas Dunne book."

ISBN:

0312169345

OCLC:

37666365