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Island of the mad

King, Laurie R.2018
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|"Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes untangle the slippery threads of insanity and deadly secrets as they investigate a disappearance in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today." A June summer's evening, on the Sussex Downs, in 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are strolling across their orchard when the telephone rings: an old friend's beloved aunt has failed to return following a supervised outing from Bedlam. After the previous few weeks--with a bloody murder, a terrible loss, and startling revelations about Holmes--Russell is feeling a bit unbalanced herself. The last thing she wants is to deal with the mad, and yet, she can't say no. The Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult life in one asylum after another, yet she seemed to be improving--or at least, finding a point of balance in her madness. So why did she disappear? Did she take the family's jewels with her, or did someone else? The Bedlam nurse, perhaps? The trail leads Russell and Holmes through a lunatic asylum's stony halls to the warm Venice lagoon, where ethereal beauty is jarred by Mussolini's Blackshirts, where the gilded Lido set may be tempting a madwoman, and where Cole Porter sits at a piano, playing with ideas.."-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
Island of the mad / Laurie R. King.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Allison & Busby, 2018.©2018
Collation:
350 pages : map ; 25 cm
Notes:
"The intriguing new Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mystery"--Cover.
ISBN:
9780749022549 (hardback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
339648
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Brighton LibraryAdult Fiction - CrimeKINGOnloan - Due: 24 Apr 2024
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