Mary Russell is a fictional character in a book series by Laurie R. King, focusing on the adventures of Russell and her partner and, later, husband, an aging Sherlock Holmes. Most of the novels are told in first-person retrospective from Mary Russell's point of view. Locked Rooms is the exception, with approximately a third of the book in the third person. So far the novels have been set in the Teens and Twenties of the early 20th century. King's...
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Mary Russell is a fictional character in a book series by Laurie R. King, focusing on the adventures of Russell and her partner and, later, husband, an aging Sherlock Holmes. Most of the novels are told in first-person retrospective from Mary Russell's point of view. Locked Rooms is the exception, with approximately a third of the book in the third person. So far the novels have been set in the Teens and Twenties of the early 20th century. King's introductions to each novel form part of an ongoing frame story about a mystery writer who is anonymously sent Mary Russell's memoirs in manuscript form and attempts to determine who sent them and why.
The daughter of a British Jewish mother and an American millionaire father, Russell spent time in Boston and San Francisco as well as England while growing up. Her mother raised her in the Jewish tradition and she continues to consider herself a Jew as an adult. When she is fourteen, Russell's parents and younger brother are killed in an...
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