Twenty minutes later, I was picking through an assortment of remarkably fashionable garments that more or less fit me.” After a night at a Monte Carlo hotel where she’s met Holmes and doesn’t have her luggage, she calls the front desk and “the neat French lady’s maid who appeared at our door five minutes later noted down my measurements and my requests-not too short, not too extreme, and conservative about the chest and shoulders-with neither shake of the head nor moue of distaste. It’s enough to make anyone long to travel there, especially if they can travel in style, as Mary Russell does. There are wonderful descriptions of Monte Carlo and the beaches, ships, and surrounding areas. Riviera Gold takes place in summertime on the French Riviera, with Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes working to find out who murdered a young man found dead in the apartment where Mrs. It was just right for that kind of reading. So I found a copy of the most recent one I hadn’t read, Riviera Gold, and spent many contented evenings reading a bit of it before bed. Recently, though, I read about the newest Mary Russell adventure, Castle Shade, at Shelf Love and it reminded me that I liked the series. King’s novels about Mary Russell, I took a break.
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