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The new week has arrived, and Uncle Zhang has come to give everyone a good book. Today I bring you "Mary Russell and the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes" series of "Adventures in the East" & "Locked Room".
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Book Title: Adventures in the East
Author: [Beauty] Laura King
Publisher: Chongqing Publishing House
Price: 39.80 yuan
Book Name: Locked Room
<h1>Editor's recommendation</h1>
At the end of the well-known Conan Doyle version of Sherlock Holmes's Detective Story, Holmes decides to retire and return to the mountains of Sussex County to beekeeping. Laura King's "Mary Russell and the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes Series" begins here.
Fifteen years later, when Uncle Cool meets Little Lori...
Starting from the perspective of the young girl Mary Russell, with her encounter, love and married life with Sherlock Holmes as the timeline, the scene covers all over the world, combining historical facts, real people and adventure stories, deconstructing and resetting the well-known Sherlock Holmes story, which not only allows the reader to see a different Sherlock Holmes, but also shapes the new female character of Sherlock Holmes's wife Mary Russell.
The two worked together to successfully solve the conspiracy again and again without the possibility, so that the book was commented by the media of various countries as a new sherlock Holmes story that has not been surpassed so far. And the author Laura King has also become a long-standing diva in the American suspense mystery novel industry because of decades of pen work, dozens of awards, and these fourteen wonderful stories, and is regarded as the American version of Agatha Christie.
<h1>About the Author</h1>
Laurie R. King (born in 1952) is a well-known American mystery novelist, who has written dozens of books and made it a bestseller list, including the "Mary Russell and The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes" series.
To date, she has won and been nominated for almost all of the mystery awards, and is the first female mystery novelist after Agatha Christie. These awards include the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the world's most authoritative award for detective fiction from the American Detective Writers Association, the Agatha Award for America's most famous mystery novel award from the National Association of Suspense Works, the Orange Award, one of Britain's most important literary awards, as well as the Nero Wolf Prize, the Clecy Award, the McVetie Award, the Bally Award, and so on.
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<h1>Synopsis</h1>
Adventures in the East
"And this new generation is unaware of the humiliation it has suffered in Egypt."
At the end of 1917, Jerusalem was freed from four centuries of Turkish control. In October 1918, British troops seized control of the area. In January 1919, the British government formally took over Palestine.
However, misunderstandings and disagreements abounded, and unrest was on the horizon. Unwilling to be defeated, Turkey sent killers, local rulers and British commanders were killed one after another, and a series of assassinations pointed to the ultimate target: the British commander, Edmund Allenby.
Holmes, who had been retired to the mountains for many years, and his 19-year-old disciple Mary Russell were in danger to try to prevent the tragedy from happening. In the desert, inside the holy city, the love for each other gradually sprouted...
Locked room
"I know, this door leads to an apartment. But it was rather hidden, and no one knew, except me. ”
San Francisco, USA, 1906. An unprecedented earthquake and the ensuing fires destroyed almost the entire city. However, this memory of the age of six was sealed in Mary Russell's mind.
At the age of fourteen, an unexpected car accident occurred, Russell's parents and brother fell off a cliff, and she was the only one who survived, after which she left the United States for Sussex, where she was haunted by nightmares of guilt.
It was not until ten years later, when she returned home with her lover Holmes, that she realized that everything had a cause.
With the help of Dahir Hammit, who had not yet written The Eagle of Malta, Holmes gradually unveiled the past...
<h1>Celebrity/media recommendations</h1>
Laura King's work is arguably the most successful continuation of Conan Doyle's version of Sherlock Holmes to date.
- Publishers Weekly
Laura King is not only one of the best mystery fiction writers in the United States, but also one of the most respected writers. Mary Russell's homecoming journey is an extremely successful story that is hard to come by.
- The Monterey Herald
You can all go and stomp your feet in protest, forgive me for being too busy reading a book to talk much... Laura King's interpretation of Sherlock Holmes's story is so fascinating that it seems to me unmatched.
—The New York Times Book Review Weekly
Laura King is writing real fiction.
— The Orlando Post
dazzled...... Dizzying...... For Conan Doyle, it was an extraordinary reading experience.
- Book collection folder
Laura King carried forward sir Conan Doyle's precious literary legacy and brought Holmes back to life, which is a very outstanding work.
—The Washington Post
<h1>Related testimonials</h1>
Disciple of a beekeeper
Sussex, 1915.
Holmes, who had been retired to the countryside for many years, met mary Russell, a fifteen-year-old orphan, and she took pity on him and decided to teach him all his skills. From then on, Holmes's partner became a girl with sharp teeth, rather than a strange Watson.
Soon, the beekeeper and his disciples received their first major case: the abduction of the daughter of a U.S. senator. But Holmes, Mary Russell, and Dr. Watson, who intervened in the investigation, were hit by bombs.
Mistake after mistake, defeat after defeat. In addition to Moriarty, a sworn enemy who has long since returned to the West, who else can force Holmes to have nowhere to escape?
2. Swamp
"It was the swamp that took him..."
In the 1990s, Laura King, the famous American mystery novelist who was at the bottleneck of writing, received a courier box with a pile of bound manuscripts in addition to a mess of various objects, signed by the author of the manuscript , Mary Russell Holmes.
Everything starts here...
Mary Russell, who was in Oxford, received an urgent telegram from her new husband, Holmes, and rushed to dartmoor swamp.
Following Mrs. Howard's ghost carriage, the black giant dog once again travels through the forest, death occurs, and evil envelops the Baskerville Estate...
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