The Beekeeper's Apprentice By Laurie R.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice is a mystery novel written by Laurie R. King about Mary Russell, an orphaned fifteen-year-old who lives with her aunt in Sussex Downs. One day in April 1915, with her nose in a book, Russell almost walked on Sherlock Holmes, fifty-four and retired from his job in London, instead caring for his beehives and elaborate science projects. They quickly bond, and Russell assumes the position of Sherlock's student, and Sherlock the teacher. Mary Russell had a steadfast opinion of Holmes as too soft and undeserving of Holmes's companionship, but when she finally met the man himself, she found that he was kind and oddly likeable, and eventually nicknames him Uncle John. When Russell goes off to Oxford in 1917, she's well-versed in the detective skills of Sherlock Holmes.
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Between terms, Mary Russell solved two quick cases with Sherlock before returning to her studies at Oxford. It was uneventful, until one afternoon in December, when Sherlock showed up at her dormitory severely damaged by a bomb and informed her that there was a bomb at her door that he defused before she arrived. Concerned, Mary Russell took him to his brother Mycroft's house nearby, where they patched up Sherlock up. When they phoned Watson to tell him that they were perfectly safe, he assumed where they were and set on his way to Mycroft's. Hours after his departure, Watson's house was blown up by what seemed to be a suicide bomber. Soon, another bomb went off at a hotel that Holmes had used as a hiding place while he was still working in London, and had very obvious clues, such as slashes on a cab seat she used to get there that were obviously Roman numerals. Sherlock and Mary Russell deduced that the bomb was set off by a woman, and a rich one at
Between terms, Mary Russell solved two quick cases with Sherlock before returning to her studies at Oxford. It was uneventful, until one afternoon in December, when Sherlock showed up at her dormitory severely damaged by a bomb and informed her that there was a bomb at her door that he defused before she arrived. Concerned, Mary Russell took him to his brother Mycroft's house nearby, where they patched up Sherlock up. When they phoned Watson to tell him that they were perfectly safe, he assumed where they were and set on his way to Mycroft's. Hours after his departure, Watson's house was blown up by what seemed to be a suicide bomber. Soon, another bomb went off at a hotel that Holmes had used as a hiding place while he was still working in London, and had very obvious clues, such as slashes on a cab seat she used to get there that were obviously Roman numerals. Sherlock and Mary Russell deduced that the bomb was set off by a woman, and a rich one at