103 years ago today…
|April 8, 2018|
…two people met on a patch of countryside:
I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs,
and nearly stepped on him. In my defence I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person
in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915. In my seven weeks of peripatetic reading amongst the sheep
(which tended to move out of my way)
and the gorse bushes
(to which I had painfully developed an instinctive awareness)
I had never before stepped on a person.
(from The Beekeeper’s Apprentice)
We’ve read them all and can’t wait for the next installment.
One of my favorite adventures and introduction to Mary Russell. Thank you!
Someone remind me, please: How do we know they met on April 8?
That’s from her journal in Mary Russell’s War.
I have the book AND audiobook of this wonderful adventure! Reading the exerpts from her diary in MARY RUSSELL’S WAR caused me to shout (out loud, i blush to recall) “RUN!” when she decides to walk a different path on that day on the Sussex Downs.
I have read them all really great books
The minute I knew Bee Keepers Apprentice was set on the South Downs I knew that I would love it … and I did. Without a doubt at this point my favorite mysteries (and at 70 I’ve read a lot!)
I wonder if, given that she knows Lord Peter, she’ll have a chance to meet Harriet Vane. Admittedly many books in the future … still.
LOVE it…each and every time I read/hear it!