A Letter of Mary: A Mary Russell Novel
St Martins Pr, January 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Good / Very Good. Item #624923
ISBN: 0312146701
Signed and inscribed by author on dedication page, continuing the dedication: ' - and for Andi and Stu Laurie R. King.' First Edition. A good copy in a very good jacket (bump and wear to foot and spine; corners bumped). // ' August 1923. All is quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex as Mary Russell works on academic research while Sherlock Holmes conducts malodorous chemistry experiments. But the peace quickly disappears as out of the past comes Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archeologist from the Holy Land, who brings the couple a lovely inlaid box with a tattered roll of stained papyrus inside. The evening following their meeting, Miss Ruskin dies in a traffic accident that Holmes and Mary soon prove was murder. But what was the motivation? Was it the little inlaid box holding the manuscript? Or the woman's involvement in the volatile politics of the Holy Land? Or could it have been the scroll itself, a deeply troubling letter that seems to have been written by Mary Magdalene and that contains a biblical bombshell...' -- publisher.
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