- Women detectives, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Women detective
An archeologist on a dig in 1920s Palestine discovers a letter purporting to come from a woman who was an apostle of Christ. A sensational document. When on her return to England the archeologist is murdered, sleuth Mary Russell decides to find out why.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Laurie R. King, Jenny Sterlin
- First published
- January 5, 1998
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- Sine nomine, Portakal Kitap, Allison & Busby, Limited
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- German, English, tur
- ISBN
- 9780312146702
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Laurie R. King is the *New York Times* bestselling author of 30 novels and other works, including the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes stories (***The Beekeeper’s Apprentice*** was chosen as one of the “20th Century’s Best Crime Novels” by the IMBA.) She has won the Agatha, Anthony, Creasey, Edgar, Lambda, Macavity, Wolfe, and Romantic Times Career Achievement awards, has an honorary doctorate in theology, and is a Baker Street Irregular. In 2022, she was named Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America. She co-edited (with Lee Child) the new handbook from Mystery Writers of America, ***How to Write a Mystery***, and has a new contemporary series with SFPD Inspector Raquel Laing, beginning with
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