false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521731m/184059.jpg 184059 14 Longtime fans of Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, might think that their favorite sleuth met his fate at the hands of Dr. Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Anyone who believes that, however, obviously hasn't read Laurie R. King's delightful series featuring Holmes and his wife(!), Mary Russell. In <I>The Beekeeper's Apprentice</I>, Holmes succumbs to the Oxford scholar's charms; now, in <I>The Moor</I>, fourth in the series, Holmes and Russell are summoned to Devonshire to solve a tin miner's mysterious death. Lonely Dartmoor provides plenty of opportunities for King to both relate the haunting legends of that part of the world and offer some amusing revisions to one of Holmes's most famous cases, <I>The Hound of the Baskervilles</I>. Though Holmes purists might resent the liberties taken with their hero, readers in search of a strong female protagonist, some fascinating local history, and spooky ambience will enjoy <I>The Moor</I>. 177886 book 1998 The Moor total:1587|5:21|4:27|3:16|2:3|1:0| 1587 6156 1918 112 5 2 false false Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 21:00:25 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 08 12:02:48 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 1 true false Fri Feb 01 17:45:57 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 17:48:49 -0800 2008 (See my review for book 3, A Letter of Mary....the thoughts below pick up where it leaves off)

...Along the same lines, one thing that surprises me in this book is that Russell complains that the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould's treatment of theology is haphazard--yet doesn't seem to realize th...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 10:33:11 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 07:00:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 15:15:22 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 17:06:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 07:10:55 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 07:55:26 -0700 2008 The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of my favorites out of The Canon (or Conan, if you will) and I wasn't sure that my new friend, Mary Russell, should venture there. A baseless fear. I ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 13:08:22 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 13:08:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Mon Apr 06 18:34:28 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 18:44:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 13:35:51 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 21:45:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 10:06:04 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 10:14:26 -0700 2009 1
Another good tale of our dynamic duo: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. In addition to the usual well-researched and well-crafted tale, in this book Ms. King chooses to reveal to us some of Sherlock's past. We learn of his re...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 16:11:48 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 16:17:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 01:42:07 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 01:42:07 -0700 2009 The ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 12 15:06:15 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 07 23:52:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 16:42:45 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 18:02:04 -0700 2009 The author needs to make sure Mary does not sou...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 13:12:49 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 13:17:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon May 18 18:16:03 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 18:18:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 07:40:59 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 15:43:03 -0700 2009
Give this book at least 150 pages .... for the first part, I felt that the plot meandered, and I simply couldn't find the footing of the story. I was, frankly, getting worried ... every author has missteps, and I was afraid that I was reading one. But as the story progressed, al...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jan 07 19:31:17 -0800 2008 Thu Jun 18 01:23:49 -0700 2009 2 A Letter of Mary, I found myself almost bored. I can only wonder whether I was overly stressed by exams at the time, because having re-read the novel again directly following the previous one, I find myself revising my opinion once again. Yes, there are a cou...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 11:59:30 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 11:59:30 -0700 2009 The Moor last night, and left it this morning. When I’m not sleeping, I’ve been reading, though mainly in fits and starts.

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