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Original Title:	Locked Rooms
ISBN:	0553583417 (ISBN13: 9780553583410)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.laurierking.com/?page_id=1219
Series:	Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #8
Characters:	Mary Russell, Dashiell Hammett, Sherlock Holmes
Setting:	San Francisco, California(United States)

Locked Rooms (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #8) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

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Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King's highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling mystery series. And this time the first couple of detection pair up to unlock the buried memory of a shocking crime with the power to kill again-lost somewhere in Russell's own past.
After departing Bombay by ship, Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are en route to the bustling modern city of San Francisco. There, Mary will settle some legal affairs surrounding the inheritance of her family's old estate. But the closer they get to port, the more Mary finds herself prey to troubling dreams and irrational behavior-a point not lost on Holmes, much to Russell's annoyance.
In 1906, when Mary was six, San Francisco was devastated by an earthquake and a raging fire that reduced the city to rubble. For years, Mary has denied any memory of the catastrophe that for days turned the fabled streets into hell on earth. But Holmes suspects that some hidden trauma connected with the "unforgettable" catastrophe may be the real culprit responsible for Mary's memory lapse. And no sooner do they begin to familiarize themselves with the particulars of the Russell estate than it becomes apparent that whatever unpleasantness Mary has forgotten, it hasn't forgotten her. Why does her father's will forbid access to the house except in the presence of immediate family? Why did someone break in, then take nothing of any value? And why is Russell herself targeted for assassination?
The more questions they ask of Mary's past, the more people from that past turn out to have died violent, unexplained deaths. Now, with the aid of a hard-boiled young detective and crime writer named Hammett, Russell and Holmes find themselves embroiled in a mystery that leads them through the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken secrets of a parent's marriage and the tragic car "accident" that a fourteen-year-old Mary alone survived-an accident that may not have been an accident at all. What Russell is about to discover is that even a forgotten past never dies...and it can kill again.

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Title	:	Locked Rooms (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #8)
Author	:	Laurie R. King
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	March 28th 2006 by Bantam (first published January 1st 2005)
Categories	:	Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

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(07/28/2017, editted to correct typo and add links.)King's "found" further adventures of Sherlock Holmes seem to work better when, as here and in The Moor, she brings an historical person into the cast. Setting the tale in Roaring Twenties San Francisco allows King to explore new territory, as begun in the preceding The Game.The broken narrative works, but maybe because King explained it.Historical quibble: King posits America--or at least San Francisco--as having been swept up in war fever the

Ok, first let me acknowledge that I really loved the Russell/Holmes romantic plot interaction in A Monstrous Regiment of Women, and I keep hoping there will be more relationship in the subsequent books. Not that I'm asking for lots of lovey-dovey stuff or explicitness, but I really loved their couple dynamic in book 2 and would love more of it along with the mysteries. It is there in the rest, but it's really, really muted. This particular book was a bit hard for me to trudge through, though I

Has it really been four years since I read the last Mary Russell book? It was great being back in her company. I enjoyed the book, though there was a zip missing, probably because Mary was unearthing some seriously deep shit from her past so wasn't her usual wit-slinging self. The alternating sections between first-person-Mary-POV and third-person-Holmes-POV threw me a bit. I don't think it was necessarily the Holmes POV itself, but that it wasn't consistent. It was usually Holmes, but the

Russell and her husband, mumble mumble, arrive in San Francisco to resolve details of her parents estate and end up tumbling into a mystery. Well, it is a mystery series, so there was bound to be one. After all, why else have mumble mumble in the story.I always feel a little awkward explaining the basic premise of the series, I mean, Sherlock Holmes married! It does seem a bit ummm improbable.The thing about Laurie Kings series is that she really makes it work. She imbues (great word imbue) each

"Locked Rooms" (MR8) by Laurie King is the third of recurring nightmares provoked by Mary Russell's return to childhood home in San Francisco. Two turn out to be memories. The last is symbolic of subconscious truths she refuses to acknowledge. I do not credit nightly brain synapses synchronizing with undue significance. Despite the annoying phony prophetic start, I'm drawn in by the plot thickening, and the author's talent for engaging. Better than psyche focus is the sense of real (not dry

This eighth book by Ms. King in the Mary Russell series is set mostly in San Francisco. But actually, it takes place mostly in Mary Russells mind. It is an investigation of her past, both remembering things forgotten and detecting things unseen. The narrative is split into several separate sections; those narrated as seen by Mary and those narrated from Sherlocks point of view. The parts shown from Sherlocks viewpoint are among the most Sherlockian passages in the entire series, which is to say

My favorite one of the series. I absolutley loved finding out finally the story behind the accident that is mentioned about the whole series and explained completey. I found myself melancholy when this book ended because I wished to continue being a part Russell and Holmes day to day activities and banter.