The back story: a Companion
In the twenty years since the publication of the first Mary Russell memoir, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, many questions have been raised about that mysterious and previously unknown partner of Sherlock...
View ArticleThe backstory: My Story
“My Story”, a short story included in its entirety in The Mary Russell Companion, is the first part of the tale of how Laurie King came to have (and publish) the Russell Memoirs as novels. This excerpt...
View ArticleThe backstory: A Case in Companionship (1)
For the question of how Laurie King came to publish Miss Russell’s Memoirs, “A Case in Correspondence” is essential reading: a series of postcards, letters, and newspaper clippings dating to 1992....
View ArticleA Case in Companionship (2)
A frequent question in Laurie R. King’s email and events is, “How come you’re taking credit for Mary Russell’s Memoirs?” “My Story” began the explanation, and “A Case in Correspondence” continues it,...
View ArticleA Case in Companionship (3)
“A Case in Correspondence” is a series of twenty postcards, letters, and newspaper clippings dating to 1992. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first Russell Memoir, was published two years later. This...
View ArticleA Case in Companionship (4)
In a discussion of how Laurie King came to publish Miss Russell’s Memoirs, “A Case in Correspondence” came to light. This series of postcards, letters, and newspaper clippings culminates with a...
View ArticleMatters Unspoken? (My blushes!)
In the twenty years since The Beekeeper’s Apprentice introduced Mary Russell to the world, many questions have been raised about the good lady, and about her relationship with Sherlock Holmes, her...
View ArticleShort story theologian
We’ve put up two new things into the LRK electrical world, both having to do with a weeklong Writer in Residence I did some years ago at Hanover College, Indiana. The first is a lengthy meditation on...
View ArticleLRK, Sherlockian?
When I first started writing the Russell books, I took great care to assert that these were not Sherlock Holmes stories, that they were about Mary Russell, with Holmes a supporting actor. Which they...
View ArticleMary’s Christmas, in time for Christmas
So, I fought my way through storm and flood and fallen branches (yeah, it is indeed raining here in drought-land, and raining hard—really hard) risking life and limb and wet shoes JUST FOR YOU,...
View ArticleRussell’s War
Last year on the centenary of the Great War’s beginnings,I began posting young Mary Russell’s War Journal. Her weekly reflections about the War, her drive to do something more than just be a fourteen...
View ArticleVanishing shorts
Two weeks from today, on Feb 1, a number of my e-short stories will be coming down, vanishing, going underground (except, of course, if they’re already on your reader.) These stories won’t be for sale...
View ArticleMarriage before Murder
“The Marriage of Mary Russell” started, as many of my more interesting projects seem to, with a conversation with my editor. Was there by any chance, she asked, a short story I’d like to write? One...
View ArticleThe Tiger of Beachy Head
Quite a bit of “The Marriage of Mary Russell”— —takes place on the South Downs, particularly that portion of it to which Sherlock Holmes retired after the death of Queen Victoria, a few miles from...
View ArticleSherlock Holmes: his people
In “The Marriage of Mary Russell,” as the cover copy tells us: Mary Russell is delighted by Sherlock Holmes’ proposal of marriage. After all, they have become partners-in-crime, and she has recently...
View ArticleTHE GAME for all (US) players
In the spirit of random celebration, let’s raise our glasses (or, screens?) to The Game. Why not? WE may all be looking forward to “Marriage” and Murder (in that order) but honestly, isn’t The Game one...
View Article“Marriage” and–which “artist Vernet”?
“The Marriage of Mary Russell” publishes today–yay! In “The Greek Interpreter,” Watson is startled when his flat-mate Sherlock Holmes pulls an unsuspected brother out of his conversational pocket: It...
View ArticleA Young Mr Holmes
Two weeks from today, the newest (and…last?) Russell memoir comes out. Since The Murder of Mary Russell reaches back into the Victorian era for portions of its tale, at a point we’re going to...
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Bundling Russell & Holmes
There’s a bundle of Russells, waiting to slip into your e-reader or cell phone: It’s probably inevitable that the first book in any series is the biggest seller, even if readers loved it. Confronted...
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Mary & Sherlock, the Christmas War
As BookBub may have told you, there’s a special deal on the US e-book of Mary Russell’s War— As you probably know, Russell’s War would be an ideal present for this time of year since there are two, yes...
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