With her bestselling mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, Laurie R. King has created "Lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company," According to now the author of and --the first write...With her bestselling mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, Laurie R. King has created "Lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company," According to now the author of and --the first writer since patricia cornwell to win both the American edgar and British creasey awards for a debut novel ( )--unfolds a hitherto unknown chapter in the history Of Russell's apprenticeship to the great detective.