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Author name: Laurie R. King

: The Moor: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN num: 9780312427399
ISBN number: 0312427395
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: October 30, 2007
Publishing house: Picador
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 39830
Studio: Picador



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Longtime fans of Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, might think that their favorite sleuth met his fate at the hands of Dr. Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Anyone who believes that, however, obviously hasn't read Laurie R. King's delightful series featuring Holmes and his wife(!), Mary Russell. In The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Holmes succumbs to the Oxford scholar's charms; now, in The Moor, fourth in the series, Holmes and Russell are summoned to Devonshire to solve a tin miner's mysterious death. Lonely Dartmoor provides plenty of opportunities for King to both relate the haunting legends of that part of the world and offer some amusing revisions to one of Holmes's most famous cases, The Hound of the Baskervilles. Though Holmes purists might resent the liberties taken with their hero, readers in search of a strong female protagonist, some fascinating local history, and spooky ambience will enjoy The Moor.

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In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing phenomena of a decidedly supernatural origin. Through the mists of the moor there have been sightings of a spectral coach made of bones carrying a woman long-ago accused of murdering her husband--and of a hound with a single glowing eye. Returning to the scene of one of his most celebrated cases, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes and Russell investigate a mystery darker and more unforgiving than the moors themselves.





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Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Better if Heard
I strongly recommend the CD version of this book. This story is meant to be heard, not read. In this way it is like many other tales and legends to come out of "The Moor". Jenny Sterlin does a very good job performing the novel.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Like being on the moor....
King's description of Darkmoor is wonderful - you can feel the eerieness and the fog and worry about hounds and anything else. I enjoy the way King brings in real historic people and makes them part of the Sherlock legend. In the process, those of us who are not English learn about parts of England and the people who live there. This is one of her best Sherlock/Russel books yet!


Rated by buyers 2 out of 5 stars - More travelog than thriller
atching a friend's vacation slides may be an agreeable way to spend an evening, but Laurie R. King tests readers' patience with the same technique when she sends Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, to"The Moor."

The title refers to Dartmoor, nearly 400 square miles of fields, hills and treacherous marshes in the southwest of England. Conan Doyle set "The Hound of the Baskervilles" there, and King uses a rumored reappearance of the hound as the pretext for drawing her sleuthing couple there. They're summoned by the eccentric clergyman, author and hymn writer ("Onward Christian Soldiers") Sabine Baring-Gould, now nearly 90 and in failing health.

But before the inquiry gets underway, we're given a long dissertation from Mrs. Holmes about Baring-Gould and Dartmoor. Between the suspicious death of a local who wandered off the straight and familiar and the discovery of a body in the good minister's lake, there's nearly 200 pages of Russell reading Baring-Gould's books, Russell talking with the man and Russell riding about the countryside and chatting up the locals. Getting to the heart of the hound mystery takes up the last hundred pages, with remarkably little of the suspense which the novel advertises.



Rated by buyers 1 out of 5 stars - Mary, quite contrary ?
I've given up trying to read this book. Like everyone else, I started with the wonderful 'The Beekeeper's Apprenctice' and am trying to read my way through the rest of the series, but none of the others have matched BA so far. And this one is just so bad, after struggling my way at the rate of 1/2 pages per day (v. rare for me I can tell you), I've now given it up as hopeless. I think the worst for me is to see Mary become the total antithesis of what she started out as - I think some reviewers here described her as a shrew, and a more apt expression couldnt be found. Most of the fun, in reading these pastiches was, alongside Holmes, to have the development of Mary into the wonderful character she was in the very first and second books. I'm so disappointed with this, and even though O Jerusalem has good reviews I might take a break before getting back to the Russell series again.


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Fine addition to the series........
The Moor, the fourth of the Russell/Holmes series is one of my favorites. The mystery again is subtle and really doesn't play out in full until the end of the book. The climax is much less dramatic than in other installments but none the less enjoyable reading. This book is more descriptive in character, an interesting journey into the life of the moor. I enjoyed reading about the landscape, the animals, and culture of Dartmoor. What I enjoyed most was King's ingenious inclusion of the The Hound of the Baskerville's story. Really clever. The secondary character of Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould was well developed. First seen as a grumpy, sexist, opinionated octogenarian, the reader along with Russell begins to see his softer more endearing characteristics and comes to regard him and his love of the moor highly. Russell is coming into more of her own, but at the same time has less of a need to cover or hide her weaknesses to Holmes. Their relationship seemed more realistic and their banter and interplay as always is one of the most enjoyable aspects of the book for me. Well done.

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