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A Letter of Mary - Community Reviews back

by Laurie R. King
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It's a Mad Mad World
It's a Mad Mad World rated it 9 years ago
Been adding reviews to the books in the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series on Goodreads and Edelweiss and can as well add them to my blogs. Been a while since I read the books, but most of the books in this series have I read so many times I can the storylines quite well. The year is 1923, M...
Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it 9 years ago
"A Letter Of Mary" is the third book in the Mary Russell series and the first one in which we see how Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes function as a married couple. They are both formidable people: Holmes, in his sixties, almost retired from a career he made largely in the previous century, but st...
Sharon E. Cathcart
Sharon E. Cathcart rated it 9 years ago
It's 1923, and Mary Russell and her husband (Sherlock Holmes) are paid a call by an old acquaintance. Dorothy Ruskin is an archaeologist with an interest in the Holy Land ... and a letter that she believes was written by Mary Magdalene. She is depending up on Russell's linguistic skills for a transl...
Abandoned by user
Abandoned by user rated it 10 years ago
I am going to do brief reviews of these two books since I devoured them both over the weekend, and am readying myself for book 4. If I had to chose between them, A Monstrous Regiment of Women edges out A Letter of Mary by a hair, mostly because of Veronica Beaconsfield in the former. I enjoyed bot...
Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it 11 years ago
The third book in the Mary Russell series, I really enjoyed A Letter of Mary. On audio it is excellent and I highly recommend it to those who enjoy listening to their books when it suits. A brief summary (which I just copied from BL new book page!): The quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex ...
Book Minx
Book Minx rated it 11 years ago
A Letter of Mary opens with Holmes and Mary enjoying a quiet day at home when archeologist Dorothy Ruskin, an old friend, suddenly appears at their door. In England for a short time on business, Dorothy has stopped by primarily to give Mary an ancient manuscript that, if proven real, would cause a s...
Hooked on Books
Hooked on Books rated it 11 years ago
This is absolutely my most favorite series ever! Every book in the series is fantastic-5 star! If you like Sherlock Holmes, you have to read this pastiche. It's the best one I've read yet.
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 11 years ago
This was the first Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes book I ever read, and of those first three I have read, this is still my favorite. I picked up the book intrigued that it involved a papyrus letter of Mary Magdalene and found so much more. Set in 1923, Russell and Holmes are a married couple in this...
Kribu
Kribu rated it 11 years ago
I enjoyed this one as well, quite a bit, but somehow I find myself at an utter lack of things to say about it. :-/
karenf
karenf rated it 13 years ago
I liked this one better than book two, I think because it was more focused on the mystery and less on the theology and politics. There was also more of Mary & Holmes working together, which I always find fun.
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