Mary Russell is a (half?) Jewish (half?) American girl who takes up with Sherlock Holmes. Like him, she is brilliant and unemotional; she becomes his protégé at age fifteen, and they solve cases together. In The Beekeeper’s Apprentice they run up against a villain more villainous and clever than all the clever villainous villains heretofore encountered by Holmes (he says) (though obviously not because I have heard he got outwitted one time), and they work in tandem to thwart the villainously clever villain. This did not bother me because I have hardly read any Sherlock Holmes stories (apart from Hound…
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