Locked Rooms: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

ISBN: 0553386387

Author: King, Laurie R.

Condition: New

A truly bravura performance [with] all the magnetic appeal of the best of the original Conan Doyle novels.-The Strand MagazineEn route to San Francisco to settle her familys estate, Mary Russell, in the company of husband Sherlock Holmes, falls prey to troubling dreams-and even more troubling behavior. In 1906, when Mary was six, the city was devastated by a catastrophic earthquake. For years Mary has insisted she lived elsewhere at the time. But Holmes knows better.Soon it is clear that whatever unpleasantness Mary wanted to forget hasnt forgotten her. A series of mysterious deaths leads Russell and Holmes from the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken secrets of a parents marriage and the tragic accident that Mary alone survived. What Russell discovers is that even a forgotten past never dies . . . and it can kill again.