Garment of Shadows: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes por Laurie R. King - 2012

New York: Bantam Books, 2012. First edition. Hardback. Fine/fine. First editio, first printing. A fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 266 pp. plus glossary. Another in this popular, inventive and highly entertaining series of mystery novels featuring an aged Sherlock Holmes and his young wife, Mary Russell. In this entry we find Mary in a strange room in Morocco trying to solve the mystery, "Who am I?" after she awakens with shadows in her mind, blood on her hands, and soldiers pounding on the door. In the grips of amnesia, he finds herself clothed like a man, strangely adept in the skills of the underworld, escaping through alleys and over rooftops, picking pockets and locks. Meanwile, Holmes is pulled in the city of Fez by two old friends and a distant relation into the growing war between France and Spain. Holmes seraches for her, she searches for herself, and each tries to crack deadly parallel puzzles before its too late for them, for Africa, and the peace of Europe.