
Mycroft, who has connections in the highest levels of the government, has just received a strange package: An oilskin-wrapped packet containing the papers of a missing English spy named Kimball O'Hara. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are visited by Sherlock's gravely ill brother, Mycroft, who has an intriguing case for them. The events in the book take place between January and March 1924, starting a few weeks after the events of Justice Hall. The author's website includes an excerpt from the first chapter.


King, which focuses on the adventures of Russell and her partner and, later, husband, an aging Sherlock Holmes. The Game is the seventh book in the Mary Russell series by Laurie R.
