There are murders, ghosts, military secrets, a Hound and even the Baskervilles, but this is not a comfortable romp through the standard Holmes adventure, but a detective novel in its own right. Well, I like a challenge, and if this is the worst, as my first, then enjoying it means I’ll have a lot to look forward to.Īs a sort of homage-cum-epilogue to Holmes’ greatest Dartmoor adventure, The Hound of the Baskervilles, it revisits the Moor and it’s history through the eyes of King’s Mary Sue, Mary Russell, with the assistance of the very real, and very eccentric nonagenarian, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. It seems, if other reviewers are anything to go by, to have been tarred with accusations of tedium, poor pacing and a lack of focus. In approaching the Mary Russell stories, I started not with her first, but her fourth novel, The Moor. Yes, I’d read the stories and even owned a few pastiche novels, but coming to find and love Holmes later in life seems, to me, to be the secret of her series’ success. Like Laurie R King, I came to discover Sherlock Holmes in my middle years. The Moor by Laurie R King, Allison & Busby, May 2014. Our latest review visits one of the most famous series of Holmes stories not written by Conan Doyle-Laurie R King’s Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
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