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Locked Rooms (Mary Russell Novels)
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780553583410
ISBN: 0553583417
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: March 28, 2006
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Studio: Bantam
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Editorial Review:
Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King’s highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling mystery series. And this time the first couple of detection pair up to unlock the buried memory of a shocking crime with the power to kill again–lost somewhere in Russell’s own past.After departing Bombay by ship, Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are en route to the bustling modern city of San Francisco. There, Mary will settle some legal affairs surrounding the inheritance of her family’s old estate. But the closer they get to port, the more Mary finds herself prey to troubling dreams and irrational behavior–a point not lost on Holmes, much to Russell’s annoyance.In 1906, when Mary was six, San Francisco was devastated by an earthquake and a raging fire that reduced the city to rubble. For years, Mary has denied any memory of the catastrophe that for days turned the fabled streets into hell on earth. But Holmes suspects that some hidden trauma connected with the “unforgettable” catastrophe may be the real culprit responsible for Mary’s memory lapse. And no sooner do they begin to familiarize themselves with the particulars of the Russell estate than it becomes apparent that whatever unpleasantness Mary has forgotten, it hasn’t forgotten her. Why does her father’s will forbid access to the house except in the presence of immediate family? Why did someone break in, then take nothing of any value? And why is Russell herself targeted for assassination?The more questions they ask of Mary’s past, the more people from that past turn out to have died violent, unexplained deaths. Now, with the aid of a hard-boiled young detective and crime writer named Hammett, Russell and Holmes find themselves embroiled in a mystery that leads them through the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken secrets of a parent’s marriage and the tragic car “accident” that a fourteen-year-old Mary alone survived–an accident that may not have been an accident at all. What Russell is about to discover is that even a forgotten past never dies…and it can kill again.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Just isn't working for me
I purchased this book several weeks ago and still haven't completed it, which is unusual for a Laura King book. This book just isn't working for me and is leaving me with a big feeling of "So what?" The first quarter of the book would have been great as an essay on going home, but not as a part of a mystery/detective series. I'm sure I'll finish it, but not with the relish I've read Ms. King's other books. What I recommend it? No.
Rating:  - Mystery that swirls around the S.F. Bay area...
This is an enjoyable light novel involving a woman who just happens to be married to Sherlock Holmes. The plot involves Mary Russell returning to her original home in San Francisco, and putting to rest some of her memories of her childhood involving the accident that killed her parents and her brother. She feels very responsible for that accident which she survived. She and Holmes are thrust into a situation in which someone does not want her to find out the truth behind that accident, that was actually ... Read More
Rating: - This kept me reading past my bedtime.
Mary Russell is finally heading back to San Francisco to deal with the estate left to her by her parents when they died in an automobile crash when she was much younger. Mary and Sherlock Holmes are taking the long way around, via Egypt, India, and Japan; this kind of circuitous journey will be made in more than one fashion in LOCKED ROOMS.
Mary has always felt responsible for the accident; she and her brother were arguing when it happened and she is certain that this argument was the distraction ... Read More
Rating:  - This is the big mystery of what happened to Mary's Family?
Anyone who has read a few of these mysteries knew that eventually King would get to the mystery that has haunted Russell since childhood: "What happened to cause the car accident that killed her parents and brother?"
Any reader of a mystery series knew that this "death by auto accident" angle had to play a role later on. The problem is, after delving through Chinatown, Feng shui, and investigation by San Francisco's favorite Dashiell Hammett, you end up sighing, "Is this it??"
To say I was disappointed ... Read More
Rating:  - It's a Pleasure
What a pleasure! I read these novels over and over, and continue enjoying them. The characters become friends, and I care what happens to them. The stories are interesting, and the backgrounds well-evoked. What more could a reader ask for?
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