Posts by Laurie King
For Murder, that’s the ticket!
Murder will be on tour—or at any rate, its author will be—in just a few weeks. And because I’d hate for my faithful followers (that’s you) to get left out, I wanted to point out that some of the events are ticketed. A couple of these are venues that asked me and agreed to wait…
Read MoreBeekeeper scarf
Back before Christmas, I mentioned here that the Goodreads community were feeling out interest in a Beekeeper’s Apprentice “infinity scarf“. Well, it’s taken a while, but the good lady who makes the things has put up a sales link, for a limited edition, limited-time sale of the scarf. It is printed with the beginning of…
Read More221 Baker Street
In The Murder of Mary Russell, we learn just how Sherlock Holmes came to inhabit the iconic Baker Street house where he and Dr Watson settled in before the fire with pipes and gasogene,newspapers and experiments, waiting for the knock from below that signaled a client. As Watson writes in A Study in Scarlet: We…
Read More“Marriage” and–which “artist Vernet”?
“The Marriage of Mary Russell” publishes today–yay! In “The Greek Interpreter,” Watson is startled when his flat-mate Sherlock Holmes pulls an unsuspected brother out of his conversational pocket: It was after tea on a summer evening, and the conversation, which had roamed in a desultory, spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the…
Read MoreTHE GAME for all (US) players
In the spirit of random celebration, let’s raise our glasses (or, screens?) to The Game. Why not? WE may all be looking forward to “Marriage” and Murder (in that order) but honestly, isn’t The Game one of your all-time favorite Mary Russells? It’s one of mine. So Team LRK (ie, me and my blood relations)…
Read MoreHeadstones, Obituaries, and MURDER
The first entry has come in for this year’s contest: Bob chose the visual approach, and gives us his impression of Mary Russell’s headstone:Note the throwing knife and pipe at the stone’s top? Also his decision to obscure the date of our heroine’s death, althoughI will say the stone looks alarmingly…old. The contest closes March…
Read MoreSherlock Holmes: his people
In “The Marriage of Mary Russell,” as the cover copy tells us: Mary Russell is delighted by Sherlock Holmes’ proposal of marriage. After all, they have become partners-in-crime, and she has recently come into her inheritance: what remains but to confirm the union with her mentor-turned-partner with the piece of paper? Russell’s pragmatic side tells…
Read MoreMarriage of Mary Russell
Laurie R. King takes readers way back in her bestselling series with this exclusive ebook short story, as Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes embark upon the riskiest adventure of their partnership: their wedding.
Read MoreThe Tiger of Beachy Head
Quite a bit of “The Marriage of Mary Russell”— —takes place on the South Downs, particularly that portion of it to which Sherlock Holmes retired after the death of Queen Victoria, a few miles from where Mary Russell stumbles across him in The Beekeeper’s Apprentice. Holmes’ earlier biographer, Arthur Conan Doyle, had little interest in…
Read MoreWriting S*X without the S*X
“Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes embark upon the riskiest adventure of their partnership: their wedding night.” When the cover blurb for this new short story first emerged from Random House, the copy writer had given the description a rather… different flavor from what its author had intended: creatively (perhaps wistfully?) the writer of the cover copy…
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