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Title:O Jerusalem (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #5)
Author:Laurie R. King
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 425 pages
Published:June 28th 2000 by Bantam Books (first published 1999)
Categories:Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Historical Mystery

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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 The New York Times Book Review. Now the author of The Beekeeper's Apprentice and The Moor--the first writer since Patricia Cornwell to win both the American Edgar and British Creasey Awards for a debut novel (A Grave Talent)--unfolds a hitherto unknown chapter in the history of Russell's apprenticeship to the great detective. At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England's green and pleasant land, Russell and Holmes enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes' enigmatic brother, Mycroft. "Gentlemen, we are at your service." Thus Holmes greets the two travel-grimed Arab figures who receive them in the orange groves fringing the Holy Land. Whatever role could the volatile Ali and the taciturn Mahmoud play in Mycroft's design for this land the British so recently wrested from the Turks? After passing a series of tests, Holmes and Russell learn their guides are engaged in a mission for His Majesty's Government, and disguise themselves as Bedouins--Russell as the beardless youth "Amir"--to join them in a stealthy reconnaissance through the dusty countryside. A recent rash of murders seems unrelated to the growing tensions between Jew, Moslem, and Christian, yet Holmes is adamant that he must reconstruct the most recent one in the desert gully where it occurred. His singular findings will lead him and Russell through labyrinthine bazaars, verminous inns, cliff-hung monasteries--and into mortal danger. When her mentor's inquiries jeopardize his life, Russell fearlessly wields a pistol and even assays the arts of seduction to save him. Bruised and bloodied, the pair ascend to the jewellike city of Jerusalem, where they will at last meet their adversary, whose lust for savagery and power could reduce the city's most ancient and sacred place to rubble and ignite this tinderbox of a land.... Classically Holmesian yet enchantingly fresh, sinuously plotted, with colorful characters and a dazzling historic ambience, O Jerusalem sweeps readers ever onward in the thrill of the chase. From the Hardcover edition.

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Original Title: O Jerusalem
ISBN: 0553581058 (ISBN13: 9780553581058)
Edition Language: English URL http://www.laurierking.com/?page_id=1211
Series: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #5
Characters: Mary Russell, Ali Hazr, Mahmoud Hazr, Sherlock Holmes
Setting: Israel Jerusalem(Israel)

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This is the fifth book. In the Sherlock Holmes-Mary Russel series, although it takes place in an earlier time period than the last one--1918. Sherlock and Mary are forced to flee England and choose British-occupied Palestine as their escape. Their trip coincides with a series of unsolved murders which exacerbates tensions between the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian populations in the city. Unlike the previous four books in this series, there was very little detective work or character development

Although this book in Laurie Kings Mary Russell series is the fifth one published, it is actually the second chronologically. During The Beekeepers Apprentice Holmes and Russell retreat to Palestine to distance themselves from the antagonist and to have time to plan how the villain will be caught. Since Mary Russell alludes to the fact that their adventures in Palestine was instrumental in Holmes now considering Russell as a partner rather than an apprentice, I decided that I would read this

I wondered for a long time if I would ever come back to the Mary Russell series, they're a visual pleasure to read and the prose (if somewhat of a 1920's kickback with the ridiculousness of the run-on sentences) makes me want to roll around with contemplation and maybe go back for a second read. The series placing of this novel is a strange one, despite being labeled the 5th in the series, chronologically it actually occurs just after the first book returning us to the relationship of the

Fun, fresh entry transplanting the typically British Holmes stories to the Middle East. A pleasant shift from the previous entry, The Moor, which felt quite a bit slower-paced, or perhaps simply of a different, less appealing form of exoticism. Great cast, with some rather James Bond dashing about and intrigue.

In the middle of "The Beekeepers Apprentice" Russell and Holmes leave England for a bit to get a breather from the relentless pursuit of there cunning opponent and agree to do a favor for Mycroft during their travels. This launches them into the world of international intrigue and the hands of the Hazr brothers. Two hard edged, unaccommodating allies?Then theres the walk with Russell and Holms on the path of the Good Samaritan, amazing!

Excellent. Once again Laurie King creates the sense of "being there". In this case, "there" is Palestine in 1919. Not only does she seem to get the history right, but also the geography, the sociology and the feel and smell of the Middle east.Another good tale, well told.

This was a bit difficult to get into initially, because the setting - both time and place - are pretty foreign to me. I'm very ill-educated on the struggles that have been going on in the Middle East in general and Jerusalem specifically for thousands of years, and I'm aware of it.However, King did her best to help me out with information about the language and a map of Jerusalem at the front. Russell helped me out in her narrative, being specific about the rules she was and was not following