#3 Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

A Letter of Mary

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The year is 1923 and Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell receive a visit from Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archaeologist. She shows them a scrap of ancient writing that is supposedly Mary Magdalene's. Soon afterwards she is murdered — but why?

Genres: MysteryHistorical FictionFictionHistoricalHistorical MysteryAudiobookCrimeDetectiveMystery ThrillerBritish Literature

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