5/21/2023 0 Comments A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. KingBut why was she murdered? Was it her involvement in the volatile politics of the Holy Land? Was it her championing of women's rights? Or was it the scroll-a deeply troubling letter that could prove to be a Biblical bombshell? In either case, Russell and Holmes soon find that solving her murder may be murder itself. Clearly there was more to Miss Ruskin than met the eye. But when Miss Ruskin is killed in a traffic accident, Russell and Holmes find themselves on the trail of a fiendishly clever murderer. Miss Ruskin wants Russell to safeguard the letter. When on her return to England the archeologist is murdered, sleuth Mary Russell decides to find out why. Working in the Holy Land, she has unearthed a tattered roll of papyrus with a message from Mary Magdalene. An archeologist on a dig in 1920s Palestine discovers a letter purporting to come from a woman who was an apostle of Christ. When Dorothy Ruskin, an archeologist, visits the Russell Holmes estate, she leaves. The third book in the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series.It is 1923. Interrupting the idyllic scene, amateur archaeologist Miss Dorothy Ruskin visits with a startling puzzle. Description for Letter of Mary Paperback. Late in the summer of 1923, Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the illustrious Sherlock Holmes, are ensconced in their home on the Sussex Downs, giving themselves over to their studies: Russell to her theology, and Holmes to his malodorous chemical experiments.
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