To celebrate the Fifteen Weeks of Bees and support Independent Booksellers, we ran the following drawing in May, 2009. Watch for a similar project in the spring of 2010, for The Green Man. Laurie loves Independents. To show her love, she’s giving a limited edition copy of this gorgeous 14×20” broadside about Russell and Holmes…

ISBN 978-0-553-80355-6 UK ISBN–978-1-84722-005-9 (May 2008) A touchstone is used to test the purity of precious metals. A man with such a test can control the value of gold. How much more could be controlled by a man with a human touchstone? It’s eight years after the Great War shattered Bennett Grey’s life, leaving him…