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25) A letter of Mary
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The third book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series.
It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when they are visited by an old friend, Miss Dorothy Ruskin, an archeologist just returned from Palestine. She leaves in their protection an ancient manuscript which seems to hint at the possibility that Mary Magdalene was an apostle—an artifact
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In broad daylight, a high society girl vanishes on a crowded street. Days pass, then weeks; the daring abduction remains an impenetrable mystery, without a ransom note, a single clue, or even public information. The moment young Sherlock reads about it, he knows that it's the case that will make his name.
27) Death in the air
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Young Sherlock Holmes, committed to solving crimes after his mother's death, is visiting his father at work when an aerialist, practicing a high-trapeze performance at the legendary Crystal Palace, falls to the ground, landing at Holmes' feet, and uttering two cryptic last words that send the boy on a dangerous search for answers.
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1888. After a disasterous Ripper investigation, Holmes sinks into a deep depression. Watson can do nothing to help his friend, but an encoded letter from the French singer, Emmeline La Victoire, rekindles the detective's interest. The singer's illegitimate son, Emil, who is 10, has disappeared, and may have been kidnapped. As Holmes and Watson travel to Paris, they discover that Emil's father, the Earl of Pellingham and a famous art collector and...
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Contains two graphic novels featuring the adventures of Sherlock Holmes adapted from the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," Holmes saves a young woman from the fate of death at the hands of an evil stepfather. In "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," Sherlock Holmes rescues an innocent young man from a fate he is not deserving of.
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This book, in graphic novel format, retells Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches," a story of Sherlock Holmes investigating the case of Violet Hunter, who has been asked to cut her long hair and dress in a blue gown in order to be hired as governess at the Copper Beeches.