num_pages: 346
description: An Agatha Award Best Novel NomineeNamed 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 in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles into his lap on the Sussex downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern twentieth-century woman proves a deft protégée, and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. This first book of the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mysteries is full of brilliant deduction, disguises, and danger.
language: English
title: The Beekeeper's Apprentice
titlecomplete: The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell, #1)
characters: Mycroft Holmes, Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes (Russell & Holmes series), Mary Russell, Inspector Lestrade, Patricia Donleavy, Mrs. Hudson (Conan Doyle series)
genres: Crime, Historical, Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical Mystery, Audiobook, British Literature, Mystery, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 81467
places: Sussex, England, England
series: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Picador