Miss Russell’s Brilliant Friends

Many and many a year ago, in a (LR)Kingdom by the sea, we started celebrating various events (new books, Library Week, St. Swithun’s Day) by running contests. Some of these involved art, others words. We did crossword puzzles, pirate haiku, Russellscapes, “My Dream Library”—you name it, we’ve done it (next up: videos.) When we moved…

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The Maryorama begins!

The transformation from Russellscape to Maryorama begins with this fantastic piece by reader Noémia Pereira, showing a scene from Dreaming Spies: Don’t you just adore this? Wouldn’t you like to join the Art March that is the Maryorama?  Wouldn’t you like to win–a complete set of the Memoirs, or some Team LRK art? Click here for…

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Russell’s War

[UPDATE: the UK edition will be out in e-format in October/November, and in print next spring!] I understand that the physical version of Mary Russell’s War and Other Stories should be shipped to bookstores–and from the Poisoned Pen orders room–next week! I’ll be doing a book launch at the Poisoned Pen on October 1–and as an…

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Russell’s War hits the deck running!

Mary Russell’s War & Other Stories of Suspense comes out Tuesday! Nineteen years in the making, this is a collection of nine previously published short stories and one ALL! NEW! Sherlock Holmes mystery! (called *ahem* “Stately Holmes.” You can blame Barbara Peters for the title.) Also, an “Appreciation” of Miss Russell by one Leslie S. Klinger, my co-editor in three…

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“Echoes” is coming

This just in from Publishers Weekly about (next month’s!) Echoes of Sherlock Holmes: King and Klinger’s strong third Sherlockian anthology (after 2014’s In the Company of Sherlock Holmes) features 17 stories from leading authors who draw on Conan Doyle’s work for inspiration. The end result is a rich variety of entries, including Tony Lee and Bevis Musson’s “Mrs.…

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Naming a not-so-new baby

Hey, friends–I’m in the process of making a new web site with just that things on it that readers have contributed–the art, writing, crossword puzzles, etc that we’ve done in various contests and promos over the years, along with pieces that I’ve done for events and such. So my question for you is: what do we call…

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Bundling Russell & Holmes

There’s a bundle of Russells, waiting to slip into your e-reader or cell phone: It’s probably inevitable that the first book in any series is the biggest seller, even if readers loved it. Confronted with a list of a dozen titles, people tend to skip over numbers two through ten or so, I suppose because…

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Love for Echoes

PW chose it as one of their top ten mysteries for the fall, and now Kirkus reviews loves them some Echoes of Sherlock Holmes, too: “Inspired” is the key word here, for contributors have been encouraged to interpret their remit even more broadly than in the editors’ previous two collections (In the Company of Sherlock Holmes,…

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Echoes of Sherlock Holmes

Something with my name on the cover has just appeared in the Publisher’s Weekly list of Top Ten Mysteries for the Fall Back in 2009, Les Klinger was in charge of the Left Coast Crime Sherlock Holmes panel. And being Les, he did not go just for the usual suspects (ie, me) but for guests of…

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Stately Stories

News—and yes, it is new, brand new. A story: Stately Holmes A Christmas Conundrum by Laurie R. King “Stately Holmes” was…well, not exactly commissioned. Suggested? Demanded? ­–by my friend Barbara Peters of Scottsdale’s Poisoned Pen Books.  Well, Barbara was hoping for a full novel by that title, but I decided it was better matched for…

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