- Mystery, Women detectives, Detective and mystery stories, Ethnic relations
Mary Russell once again teams up with Sherlock Holmes as they are pursued by murderous strangers through the bazaars of 1918 Jerusalem.
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Classical in form, grave, resolved and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Laurie R. King
- First published
- June 6, 2000
- Pages
- 421
- Publisher
- Collins Crime, Random House Publishing Group, Allison & Busby, Limited
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9780553664898
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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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