The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen [Paperback]

The Twentieth-Anniversary Edition of the First Novel of the Acclaimed Mary Russell Series by Edgar AwardWinning Author Laurie R. King.

An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association

In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern, twentieth-century woman proves a deft prot?g?e and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. They are soon called to Wales to help Scotland Yard find the kidnapped daughter of an American senator, a case of international significance with clues that dip deep into Holmes's past. Full of brilliant deduction, disguises, and danger,The Beekeeper's Apprentice, the first book of the Mary RussellSherlock Holmes mysteries, is remarkably beguiling (The Boston Globe).

King has stepped onto the sacred literary preserve of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, poached Holmes, and brilliantly brought him to life again. The Washington Post Book World

A fascinating and often moving account of a friendship so unusual and so compelling that one almost accepts it as being historically real. The Denver Post

Enchanting...The Beekeeper's Apprenticeis real Laurie R. King, notfauxConan Doyle, and for my money, it's better than the original. San Jose Mercury News

Rousing...Riveting...Suspenseful. Chicago Sun-Times