Summary: On the run from the police in 1924, Mary Russell, wife of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes (and 40 years his junior), finds herself saddled with her quite unexpected step-granddaughter, while her husband goes his separate way to find treatment for his newly discovered son, an artist conceived during his affair with Irene Adler.
Along the way Russell gets aid fromRobin Goodfellow Robert Goodman, an impish hermit living in the woods of an abandoned country estate, and Sherlock kidnaps a lady doctor to fix his son's bullet wound and takes her on a very unplanned trip to Denmark.
But forces in London are moving against them as Mycroft Holmes is kidnapped, then murdered, by a rival for his considerable power.
( No, it's not a fanfic. It's published. For reals. )
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But forces in London are moving against them as Mycroft Holmes is kidnapped, then murdered, by a rival for his considerable power.
( No, it's not a fanfic. It's published. For reals. )