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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?

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“Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes' family while also delivering an intriguing mystery.”—The Washington Post

“The elaborate family lore King has constructed for Holmes impresses, and she pays longtime readers dividends with a number of satisfying disclosures about the detective’s past. Series fans are sure to be pleased.”—Publishers Weekly

“Mary Russell solves the 100+ year old puzzle of Sherlock Holmes’s ancestry in Laurie R. King’s masterful The Lantern’s Dance. King’s brilliant tale ofa legacy of racism and sexism will remind contemporary readers that those horrors are not new. Huzzah!”—Leslie S. Klinger, editor, New Annotated Sherlock Holmes

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“Highly recommend for historical mystery fans who have followed the series, as well as readers looking for historical heroines with agency such as Maisie Dobbs, Bess Crawford, or Phryne Fisher.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“Each book in the Russell and Holmes series is a treat. . . . The novels are extremely atmospheric. . . . Kudos to Laurie King for keeping the legend [of Sherlock Holmes] alive with such entertaining novels, and Mary Russell keeping him on his toes.”—Mystery & Suspense Magazine

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“A refreshing summer breeze of a mystery novel that is so cool you can practically hear the jazz dripping right off its pages.”—Bookreporter

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Laurie R. King is the award-winning, bestselling author of seventeen previous Mary Russell mysteries, a new series featuring SFPD cold-case inspector Raquel Laing, the contemporary Kate Martinelli series, the historical Stuyvesant & Grey stories, and five acclaimed standalone novels. She lives in Northern California, where she is at work on her next Mary Russell mystery.

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Chapter One

“Let me help,” he said.

“I can manage.”

“Russell, I’ll get the—”

“I’m fine, Holmes,” I snapped. I was not fine. And when it came to admitting that an infirmity might require some help, I was proving nearly as cantankerous as Sherlock Holmes himself could be.

“I can—”

“Holmes, just pay the ruddy driver, I’ll send someone out for the bags.” Assuming they hadn’t changed their minds as to the invitation. Or gone off to the South of France for the month.

“Watch the—”

“I see it!” And nearly tripped over it, one crutch-leg sliding into an ill-fitting stone on the walk.

But he let me get on with my halting progress, stumping along the walk-way towards the brightly painted door while the taxi-driver undid the rope strapping our trunks and valises in place. We’d expected to be met when we got off at the station in nearby Délieux. And though the absence of a car might have been a message of sorts—that antipathy had returned, that we should simply continue on to Paris—we had been invited, we had accepted, and we had cabled ahead with our information.

And even if the absence of greeting at the station had been due merely to the chronic forgetfulness of an artist, one would have thought that Damian’s doctor fiancée, who had impressed even Holmes as being marvellously competent, would remember the arrival of her soon-to-be in-laws. (Stepmother-in-law? Me?)

I reached the end of the pathway without mishap, negotiated my way up the two low steps, settled my balance so I could reach out for the bell—then stopped, abruptly, three feet from the front door. After a moment, leaving the crutches tucked under my aching arms, I unfurled my fingers from the grips and raised them, hands outstretched.

Resentments, unsettled scores, and long-standing acrimony were one thing.

What I had not anticipated was being met by the sound of a break-action shotgun snapping into place behind me.

Chapter Two

I stood utterly still. So did the person with the shotgun. The voices from the lane concluded their business. A car door slammed, the taxi’s engine clattered into life, the gate creaked, footsteps began—and cut short as the world’s first consulting detective saw the tableau on his son’s doorstep.

The sound of the motorcar faded away. Holmes and I waited, either for the man to pull down on the trigger or to decide that we were not the enemy he seemed to be anticipating.

“Qu’est-ce que vous voulez?” His voice was raised so as to reach both of us. It was not, to my relief, Damian.

“Nous cherchons la famille Adler,” I said over my shoulder. We’re looking for the Adler family.

“Vos noms?”

“The name is Holmes,” came the voice from the gate. “Sherlock Holmes.”

“Ah,” the man behind me said, in English this time. “Good.”

The shotgun mechanism clicked. I let out a shaky breath and lowered my hands onto the crutch grips, manoeuvring myself around.

On the surface, my would-be assailant was a French agricultural worker: soft cap; tie-less, once-white shirt under a working man’s waistcoat and red braces; and soil-coloured trousers of hard-wearing twill. His shirtsleeves were rolled up on meaty forearms, revealing a tattoo whose significance no doubt Holmes would read, but to me looked like a scrawl of dark chalk dissolved by time. His shoes, however, were no peasant clogs, but fit him well and had once cost a pretty centime.

The shoes led me to reconsider his status—and indeed, the set of his shoulders made it clear that this was not a gardener in the habit of tugging his forelock, or even doffing his cap. Beyond that, Damian clearly trusted this man enough to give him the name of Sherlock Holmes.

“Bonjour, Monsieur,” I said.

“You, I think, will be Madame Holmes?”

“Er, yes.”

“I most abjectly beg your good pardon, Madame. I am Gervais LaRue. Monsieur Adler said you would come. Have you hurt—ah, Monsieur,” he said, holding out a hand for Holmes to shake. “I apologise for my ambuscade on your good wife. Please, come in—here, I shall open. Madame, you have injured yourself?”

“A minor sprain, nothing to worry about.” It was a foolish injury, a combination of a small dog, a distracted mind, and some slippery tiles on a Berlin railway platform. My brusque tone of voice told him that I did not wish to talk about it.

He made sympathetic noises, but hastened to retrieve a heavy skeleton key from a pocket and fitted it into the door, fiddling it into place awkwardly around the gun draped across his other arm. “Il faut plus d’huile,” he muttered to himself, then grunted in relief when the key turned and the door came open.

“Where are the Adlers?” Holmes demanded.

“Ah, Monsieur, now that is a tale—come, my wife will bring food, and I will tell you all.”

M. LaRue trotted ahead of us into the dim interior, ducking through one door and reappearing without the gun, then crossing the hallway to disappear through another. His footsteps went soft as he passed over carpet, then came the sounds of windows and shutters being thrown open. Holmes turned back down the path to fetch our bags. LaRue came out, squeezing past me to trot after Holmes. I decided there was little point in blocking the hallway, so stepped inside what proved to be a large sitting room, its stale air rapidly dissipating with the morning breeze.

On the outside, the Adler home was a substantial stone-walled, two-storey, red-tile-roofed French house with bright flowers along the walk and, unlike any of its neighbours in this village to the south of Paris, shutters and door painted an orange so bright, a child might have chosen it.

The inside too was a mix of traditional and modern, with a rococo limestone fireplace and ornate fringed ceiling lamps—once gas, now electrical—that looked askance at the brilliant blocks of colour in the carpet and the dozens of bottles lining the wall behind a cocktail bar decorated with a modernist version of Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, its polished metal top set with ash-trays from half a dozen Parisian cafés. Gilt-framed portraits and landscapes shared the walls with art that resembled industrial schematics, primitive cave-paintings, or in one case, an artist’s actual palette. The curtains were pale green linen, the seats were mostly Deco armchairs in several shades of darker green velvet, and the low table before the fireplace looked like a piece fallen off of an aeroplane. A leather settee in a startling shade of fuchsia was blessedly muted by the magnificent old Turkish rug draped across it. An elegant antique glass-fronted bookcase was stuffed with modern novels and books for children. On its top was a tangle of deer antlers, out of which peeped a child’s teddy.

The orange doors, angular furniture, shin-endangering table, and avant-garde rectangles of painted canvas on the walls testified to the presence of Damian Adler: Surrealist artist, occasional murder suspect, and consequence of the affair between an American contralto and the world’s most eminent English consulting detective, some thirty years before.

The children’s books and teddy bear were signs of one Estelle Adler, Damian’s four-and-a-half-year-old, disconcertingly intelligent daughter.

The pale green curtains, the modern-but-subdued wallpaper, and the pieces of furniture that looked as if they might actually be used for sitting upon demonstrated the conciliatory influence of Damian’s wife-to-be, Dr Aileen Henning.

And underlying these three strong modern personalities, I caught glimpses of another strong individual: the rococo fireplace, ceiling lamps, and Turkish throw-rug were signs of the opera singer and renowned adventuress, Irene Adler. Damian’s mother, my husband’s long-ago . . . paramour.

This house had once belonged to her. In his early years on Baker Street, Irene Adler had come to Holmes’ attention as the suspect in a case of blackmail—and promptly claimed his youthful heart by outwitting him soundly. He eventually discovered that she was not only innocent, but that she was the wronged party, fighting to protect her future with the man she loved. She and Godfrey Norton had married, escaping with their dignity and their love—only to have it turn to ashes when he died and she was injured in an accident a few years later.

Holmes heard of the accident as he was working his way back across Europe after an enforced absence from London. He tracked her down in Montpellier, to offer his condolences. Matters progressed—only to have her briskly send him on his way home to London in April of 1894, with no more explanation than she wished to return home to America.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam (February 13, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593496590
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593496596
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.18 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches

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New York Times bestselling crime writer Laurie R. King writes both series and standalone novels. For a complete list of her books in order, please visit http://www.laurierking.com/books/complete-book-list

In the Mary Russell series (first entry: The Beekeeper's Apprentice), fifteen-year-old Russell meets Sherlock Holmes on the Sussex Downs in 1915, becoming his apprentice, then his partner. The series follows their amiably contentious partnership into the 1920s as they challenge each other to ever greater feats of detection. For a complete list of the Mary Russell books in order, click here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00CJLA42C/kindle/ref=sr_bookseries_null_B00CJLA42C.

The Kate Martinelli series, starting with A Grave Talent, concerns a San Francisco homicide inspector, her SFPD partner, and her life partner. In the course of the series, Kate encounters a female Rembrandt, a modern-day Holy Fool, two difficult teenagers, a manifestation of the goddess Kali and an eighty-year-old manuscript concerning Sherlock Holmes.

The Stuyvesant and Gray books feature Harris Stuyvesant, a Bureau of Investigation agent who finds himself far out of his depth, first in England during the 1926 General Strike (Touchstone), then in Paris during the sweltering confusion of September, 1929 (The Bones of Paris).

King also has written stand-alone novels--A Darker Place as well as two loosely linked novels, Folly and Keeping Watch--and a science fiction novel, Califia's Daughters, under the pseudonym Leigh Richards.

King grew up reading her way through libraries like a termite through balsa before going on to become a mother, builder, world traveler, and theologian.

She has now settled into a genteel life of crime, back in her native northern California. She has a secondary residence in cyberspace, where she enjoys meeting readers in her Virtual Book Club and on her blog.

King has won the Edgar and Creasey awards (for A Grave Talent), the Nero (for A Monstrous Regiment of Women) and the MacCavity (for Folly); her nominations include the Agatha, the Orange, the Barry, and two more Edgars. She was also given an honorary doctorate from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

Check out King's website, http://laurierking.com/, and follow the links to her blog and Virtual Book Club, featuring monthly discussions of her work, with regular visits from the author herself. And for regular LRK updates, follow the link to sign up for her email newsletter.

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Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2024

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For those that love anything Sherlock Holmes, if you have not read Laurie King’s Bee-Keeper’s Apprentice, do so immediately. Then, dive into “The Lantern’s Dance”.

Although this book can be read on its own, it will be an even richer experience for you if you read all of her other Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes novels first. I was so grateful to have read every single book the author wrote first.

In 30 years, the author has honed her craft and written one delicious book after another. This one is a celebration of the strength of women and the achievements that are made possible by education (both conventional and unconventional) and courage.

There are those women that achieve greatness in a world that men rule. The author strings their lives into a necklace that men unknowingly decorate and complement.

Read this book and enjoy a well researched and crafted tale of multiple threads that will surprise you and partially explain the enigma of the source of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes’ brilliance. I won’t say any more but you NEED to read this book. Read it slowly with a cup of tea and savor all the scents and spices and sights of a world long past. And perhaps end with a nice Indian meal.

Congratulations to Laurie King for a beautiful work and my best wishes to her for a long and fruitful career as a writer. (Live long, and please keep on writing).

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Fred L. Curry

Another wonderful winner

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024

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The next in her series on the further adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A delightful discourse on his family's background told in her detailed, but never boring, style. It kept me guessing to the end.

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A fantastic summation of the whole series dragging thread after thread from many of the Russell and Holmes series. I will have to go back and read the series again; some references escaped my memory. As all her works this one is great for those who love history with a personal touch.

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Elle

Excellent addition to the Mary Russell series

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024

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I’ve been following the Mary Russell series for many years now. Having read all of the books in the series, I can truthfully say that this is one of my favorites.Not only is it well written and researched, but the story is intriguing. I could hardly wait to read the next chapter and what it would unfold . Thank you again, Laurie King for a wonderful book.

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024

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I have read all the books in this series, over the last 30 years. This one is by far the best of a very great group of stories. As an avid Holmes fan I really enjoyed that we see more of him in this book than in some of the others, and the outcome was just wonderful. But even though Holmes plays more of a role here, the essential nub of this series, the emphasis on how amazing Mary is as a partner, analyst and detective, is on full display. I did think this started a bit slow but I read the last 70% in one sitting, and couldn't wait to get to the end to see whether what I hoped so much would be the case was in fact the denouement, which it was. The last few of these were a little less stellar than her initial works so I am very happy that this book was so great, and can't wait to read the next entry. For anyone who loves this series, or even for anyone who has not yet read this series but loves Holmes, this book is highly, highly recommended.

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A Satisfying Addition to the Holmes % Russell Series

Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2024

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A mystery set (primarily) in and around Paris.

The 18th Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes novel is very satisfying. As this series unfolded, Laurie King became the keeper of the Sherlock Holmes persona, and “The Lantern’s Dance” further elaborates Sherlock’s back story.

The novel begins when Holmes and his wife, Mary Russell, show up at the residence of Holmes’ son, Damian, and find that he, his fiancé Aileen, and daughter Estelle, have fled in the aftermath of an attempted burglary. Holmes leaves to find them. Russell, incapacitated by a sprained ankle, stays behind and searches the residence for clues. She finds four ancient trunks filled with memorabilia left by Holmes granduncle, the painter Horace Vernet. Russell locates a mysterious journal whose entries are written in a sophisticated code. Because she is housebound, and bored, Russell spends days decoding the journal. What she finds tells us why Damian, and Holmes, are at risk.

“The Lantern’s Dance” may be too sophisticated for today’s mystery audience. I hope not, because the novel is a splendid addition to the Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes series.

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Layers upon layers with revelations that were stunning!!

Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2024

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A new Mary Russell Mysteries is always highly anticipated and this one, the 18th in the series did not disappoint. From the opening pages of Russell and Holmes arriving to visit Damien, his intended, and the child Estelle only to find them missing and a shotgun pointed at them to the breathtaking ending this book had layers upon layers and revelations that were stunning. A bit slow to start, once it took off it galloped along at a breathtaking pace that kept this reading turning pages long into the night. A must-read for those who know Sherlock Holmes, and those who don't.

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I’ve read all of Laurie King’s books and while some are more compelling than others, they are all so well written with wonderful prose, and with deep and intimately developed characters. None of her books can be read quickly without taking the time to reflect on the storyline and the interrelationships of the characters. Some people don’t like this and are subsequently turned off, but taking this time is a must if you are going to thoroughly appreciate how finely the book is written. Laurie’s books are like the “croissants” of literature! This book was no exception and was delightful!

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GABY

Simply extraordinary

Reviewed in Spain on March 6, 2024

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The best of all Russell’s series! I couldn’t put the book down

Lesley

Another excellent addition to the series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2024

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I've been looking forward to this one, with its promise of getting to know more about Holmes' past. Having delved into Mary's back story so splendidly in "Locked Rooms", we were due a look into the darkest secrets of her husband. This book doesn't disappoint, presenting a really fascinating story, two in fact, that do not seem to be linked at first but this is not the case. The revelation of the connection is one of the more delightful plot twists I've read recently. I could quibble about the major revelation at the end but the result is so wonderful, it would be churlish to complain. And it also raises many questions for the next novel, which Laurie has confirmed is in progress. Recommended!

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Worth the wait!

Reviewed in Germany on February 15, 2024

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This book was definitely worth the wait. Nice story line and hard to put down. One or two things I found rather obvious but all in all a great read with lots of background on Holmes' past. I fully recommend!
Ps: i found the title a little misleading/ expected the lantern to be of more importance but that is something small to overlook :)

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2024

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Laurie King, gripping as always, so much so, its hard to put down!

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book was delivered promptly and enjoyable but had a few non-sequiturs

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