An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association From "New York Times" bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book that introduced us to the ingenious Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees when a young woman literally stumbles into him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes--and match him wit for wit. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern twentieth-century woman proves a deft protegee and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. In their first case together, they must track down a kidnapped American senator's daughter and confront a truly cunning adversary--a bomber who has set trip wires for the sleuths and who will stop at nothing to end their partnership. Full of brilliant deductions, disguises, and dangers, this first book of the Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes mysteries is "wonderfully original and entertaining . . . absorbing from beginning to end" ("Booklist").

劳拉·金（Laurie R. King），出生于1952年，美国著名推理小说家，著作数十部，部部登上畅销书排行榜，其中“玛丽·罗素与大侦探福尔摩斯”系列令其声名远播。

迄今她已获得并提名了几乎全部推理界的奖项，堪称阿加莎·克里斯蒂之后的女性推理小说家。这些奖项包括美国侦探作家协会颁发的全世界侦探小说奖项埃德加·爱伦·坡奖，美国国家悬疑作品协会颁发的美国著名推理小说奖项阿加莎奖，英国重要的文学奖项之一橘子奖，以及尼禄·沃尔夫奖、克利西奖、麦克维蒂奖、巴利奖等等。

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