The MoorThe Moor
a Mary Russell Novel
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Book, 1998
Current format, Book, 1998, 1st ed, Available .Married sleuths Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell revisit the scene of Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles" to uncover the source of a centuries-old family curse, at the center of which is Dartmoor, a great Devonshire moor
Married sleuths Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell revisit the scene of Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles to uncover the source of a centuries-old family curse, at the center of which is Dartmoor, a great Devonshire moor. Mystery Guild Feat Alt. BAKER & TAYLOR
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.
Married sleuths Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell revisit the scene of Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles to uncover the source of a centuries-old family curse, at the center of which is Dartmoor, a great Devonshire moor. Mystery Guild Feat Alt. BAKER & TAYLOR
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.
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