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Violence
Some
Some violence; criminal conspiracy; Russell in danger when her cover becomes precarious
Language
Some
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content; the sailors drink
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific pleasure of Russell operating alone; the comedy of a detective embedded in a film production where everybody is performing
What this book is about
Mary Russell goes undercover alone, joining a film company in 1924 that is making a movie about pirates — sailing the Atlantic while a crew of actors and criminals conduct their own subplot in the rigging. Russell investigates while maintaining her cover as a production assistant, discovering that the film company's financial backers have connections to real criminal enterprises. Laurie R. King's eleventh Russell/Holmes novel is the most purely comic of the series — the film company provides the book with a character gallery — and Russell's solo operation allows her to demonstrate the competence the partnership can sometimes obscure.
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eleventh Mary Russell / Sherlock Holmes novel by Laurie R. King; comic tone
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