The Game, Laurie R. King
The Game, Laurie R. King
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The Game

Author: Laurie R. King

Narrator: Jenny Sterlin

Unabridged: 13 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/18/2008

Synopsis

In the early days of 1924 Mary Russell and her husband, the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, are given an urgent task by his brother Mycroft: Find a British spy gone missing along India's north­west frontier, where men are dying and trouble is brewing.

The spy's name? It is one Holmes knows from his sojourn in India long ago, and one Russell knows from a book. It is Kimball O'Hara, known to the world by the name Rudyard Kipling called him - Kim...

About Laurie R. King

Laurie R. King is the Edgar Award–winning author of the Kate Martinelli novels and the acclaimed Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries, as well as a few stand-alone novels. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first in her Mary Russell series, was nominated for an Agatha Award and was named one of the Century’s Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. A Monstrous Regiment of Women won the Nero Wolfe Award. She has degrees in theology, and besides writing she has also managed a coffee store and raised children, vegetables, and the occasional building. She lives in northern California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on March 14, 2016

$1.99 on Amazon today! 1924. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes gets a New Year’s visit from Mycroft Holmes with a strange package from an English spy called Kimball O’Hara, more known as the Kim Kipling wrote about. He has withdrawn from the “Great Game” of espionage and disappeared. So Russell and Ho......more

Goodreads review by Jeanne on February 16, 2018

Laurie King's The Game is a pleasure for the senses and mind. The Gameis chock full of interesting and beloved characters: Sherlock Holmes; his equally smart, competent, and courageous wife; and the grown-up version of Rudyard Kipling's Kim (and, perhaps, his reincarnation). King both writes and thi......more

Goodreads review by Angela on December 22, 2008

We'd talked on a prior entry on my journal about how the entire Mary Russell series can be easily argued to be one of the most successful and longest-running Mary Sue storylines ever. This is not to say that the storyline and concept suck--just that the notion of sticking a new character into the es......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on May 15, 2021

A birthday dinner with Mycroft on Mary's twenty-fourth birthday in January, 1924, sends Holmes and Russell to India to search for Kimball O'Hara who hasn't been seen for three years. Tensions are rising in India. The nationalist uprising under Ghandi is gaining momentum and the rivalry between Russi......more

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