★★★¼
GENRE: Mystery
SUBJECT: Amnesia
Setting: Morroco
CHARACTERS: Sherlock Holmes, Mary Russell, Mahmoud Hazr, Ali Hazr
DATE READ: July 30 - August 3
NO. OF PAGES: 288
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?: no, public library
PLOT:..............................................3.50
CHARACTERIZATION:.................3.00
TOPICS:..........................................3.00
STYLE:............................................3.50
ORIGINALITY:.................................3.00
ADDICTIVENESS:.........................3.00
OWNERSHIP:.................................3.00
Threshold Quality............................4.00
Average...........................................................3.25
This latest addition to the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series picks up shortly after the end of Pirate King. Holmes has gone off on his own to explore leaving Mary to continue on with the film crew but upon his return he discovers that Mary is missing. Mary, in the meantime, has awoke in a strange place with amnesia.
Their combined adventures and reunion are thoroughly entertaining and remind the reader of the earlier books where Holmes and Russell collaborated so well and why their unusual marriage works.
I love any book that these two are in together, however, the plot did seem a bit thin this time but there were a few surprises.
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