![]() ![]() Who'd have thought it would take a 20th-century woman to flesh out the crusty, taciturn, yet oh-so-well beloved figure of Sherlock Holmes, himself essentially a 19th-century man? Of course, I am referring here not only to the talented King but also to her most imaginative creation, Mary Russell, the liberated, half-American Jewish woman who, over the course of several evocative books so far (beginning with The Beekeeper's Apprentice, 1994), has breathed freshness and new life into Holmes' legendary persona.īorn at the turn of the last century, and only a precocious 15 years old on the occasion of her fateful first meeting with the Great Detective (who was then 54 and languishing in semi-retirement, keeping bees on England's Sussex Downs), Mary Russell has gone on to win not just Holmes' admiration, but his well-guarded old heart as well. ![]()
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