![]() On their way back to Britain from India, Holmes and Russell stop at Russell's childhood home in San Francisco. Holmes and Russell team up with a former Pinkerton agent Dashiell Hammett, several residents of Chinatown, and a cast of irregulars to solve the mystery that has plagued Mary for ten years. A puzzling codicil to the Russells' will, a break-in at the family house, and a failed attempt on Mary's life quickly draw Holmes and eventually Mary into an investigation of the real cause of her parents' death. ![]() Throughout her adolescence and adulthood, Mary has blamed herself for the family's fatal automobile accident. ![]() Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes sail to San Francisco to close up the house and businesses that Mary inherited after her family's death. The events of the novel follow directly that of The Game. The books alternate between the familiar Mary Russell first-person narrative and a third-person narrator following Sherlock Holmes. ![]() Unlike King's previous Mary Russell novels, Locked Rooms is split into 5 separate "books". Locked Rooms is the eighth book in the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. ![]()
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