num_pages: 370
description: In re-creating Sherlock Holmes in previous books as an adjunct to her chief protagonist, Mary Russell, King has set the couple's adventures in a milieu consistent with her own creation and, although true to the place and period, independent of Conan Doyle's work. Holmes has been invited by his old friend the Rev. Baring-Gould to look into not only an unexplained death on the moor but, more important in the ancient cleric's mind, sightings of a phantom coach on the moor - possibly inhabited by a phantom noblewoman and accompanied by some phantom dogs. Holmes, in turn, pulls Mary from her studies at Oxford, enlists her in the quest, and finds himself taking a second seat to her endeavors. True to their expectations on the forbidding and difficult moor, the rumors have a real-world explanation, but it is one that combines more wild emotion, surprise, and frightening suspense than any ghost story could.
language: English
title: The Moor
titlecomplete: The Moor (Mary Russell, #4)
characters: Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes (Russell & Holmes series), Sabine Baring-Gould
genres: Historical Mystery, British Literature, Historical, Mystery, Detective, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 17337
places: Dartmoor, Devon, England
series: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
publisher: Bantam Books