04454cam a2200721 4500 1485341095 TxAuBib 20240804120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593496602 0593496604 B0C56RRQPT Amazon 60c384a9-e7bc-4aa9-b8e1-b3badeb436d4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9849502 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib King, Laurie R. The Lantern's Dance [Bridges eBook]. Random House Publishing Group, 2024. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1870kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. laurie king mary russell series. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. historical mystery fiction. strong female protagonist. historical fiction books. mysteries and thrillers. Sherlock Holmes Books. Historical mysteries. Murder mystery books. mary russell series. Historical Fiction. historical mystery. historical novels. murder mysteries. detective novels. sherlock holmes. cozy mysteries. mystery novels. laurie r. king. mystery books. cozy mystery. crime books. laurie king. mysteries. marriage. suspense. secrets. mystery. France. cozies. crime. cozy. dark. HTML:NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal. “Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes’s family while also delivering an intriguing mystery.”—The Washington Post After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes’ son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian’s house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. Holmes rushes after Damian while Russell, slowed down by a recent injury, stays behind to search the empty house. In Damian’s studio, she discovers four crates packed with memorabilia related to Holmes’ granduncle, the artist Horace Vernet. It’s an odd mix of treasures and clutter, including a tarnished silver lamp with a rotating shade: an antique yet sophisticated form of zoetrope, fitted with strips of paper whose images dance with the lantern’s spin. In the same crate is an old journal written in a nearly impenetrable code. Intrigued, Russell sets about deciphering the intricate cryptograph, slowly realizing that each entry is built around an image—the first of which is a child, bundled into a carriage by an abductor, watching her mother recede from view. Russell is troubled, then entranced, but each entry she decodes brings more questions. Who is the young Indian woman who created this elaborate puzzle? What does she have to do with Damian, or the Vernets—or the threat hovering over the house? The secrets of the past appear to be reaching into the present. And it seems increasingly urgent that Russell figure out how the journal and lantern are related to Damian—and possibly to Sherlock Holmes himself. Could there be things about his own history that even the master detective does not perceive? Historical Fiction. Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-08-03 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=60c384a9-e7bc-4aa9-b8e1-b3badeb436d4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=60c384a9-e7bc-4aa9-b8e1-b3badeb436d4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=60c384a9-e7bc-4aa9-b8e1-b3badeb436d4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)