Following on the heels of her exciting and widely acclaimed _A Monster's Notes_ , and with Sheck's characteristic brilliance of language, _Island of the Mad_ follows the solitary, hunchbacked Ambrose A., as he sets out on a mysterious journey to Venice in search of a lost notebook he knows almost no
Island of the Mad
β Scribed by Laurie R. King
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;BANTAM Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 326 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King's New York Times bestselling seriesβ"the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today" (Lee Child).
With Mrs. Hudson gone from their lives and domestic chaos building, the last thing Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, need is to help an old friend with her mad and missing aunt.
Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult life in one asylum after another, since the loss of her brother and father in the Great War. And although her mental state seemed to be improving, she's now disappeared after an outing from Bethlem Royal Hospital . . . better known as Bedlam.
Russell wants nothing to do with the caseβbut she can't say no. And at least it will get her away from the challenges of housework and back to the familiar business of investigation. To track down the vanished woman, she brings to the fore her deductive instincts and talent for...
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