collected in one volume the first four novels featuring the retired sherlock holmes and his disciple mary russell by new york timesbestselling author laurie r king the beekeepers apprentice in 1915 sherlock holmes and his fifteenyearold protege mary russell are called to wales to help scotland yard find the kidnapped daughter of an american senator a case of international significance with clues that dip deep into holmess pasta monstrous regiment of women it is 1921 and mary russell is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance her attentions turn to the new temple of god and its leader a charismatic suffragette and a mystic when four bluestockings from the temple turn up dead shortly after changing their wills could sins of a capital nature be afoot a letter of mary it is 1923 mary russell holmes and sherlock holmes are visited by an old friend an archaeologist just returned from palestine she leaves in their protection an ancient controversial manuscript when their friend is suddenly killed in a tragic accident russell and holmes find themselves on the trail of a fiendishly clever murderer the moor in the eerie wasteland of dartmoor sherlock holmes summons mary russell to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing phenomena of a decidedly supernatural origin there have been sightings of a spectral coach made of bones carrying a woman longago accused of murdering her husbandand of a hound with a single glowing eye returning to the scene of the hound of the baskervilles holmes and russell investigate a mystery darker and more unforgiving than the moors themselves