num_pages: 384
description: MysteryLarge Print EditionCompelling characters, scrupulous period detail and an absorbing, feminist-influenced mystery. Washington Post Book WorldAugust 23, 1923. The quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex is shaken when Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archaeologist from the Holy Land, appears with a lovely inlaid box containing a scrap of ancient writing. But when Miss Ruskin is murdered in a staged automobile accident, the motive is unsure. Was she killed for the manuscript? Or for her involvement in the volatile politics of the Holy Land? Sherlock Holmes will do some of his most ambitious detecting to find out the cause of Miss Ruskins untimely death.
language: English
title: A Letter of Mary
titlecomplete: A Letter of Mary (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #3)
characters: Mycroft Holmes, Dorothy Ruskin, Mrs. Hudson (Conan Doyle series), Erica Rogers, Inspector Lestrade, Mary Russell, Colonel Dennis Edwards, Sherlock Holmes (Russell & Holmes series)
genres: Historical Mystery, British Literature, Historical, Mystery, Detective, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 19780
places: Sussex, England
series: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
publisher: G K Hall & Co - Large Print