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I neglected to say that Laurie King, author of the latest set of Sherlock Holmes tales, threads little snippets of humor throughout the writing.
Mary Russell, protege, apprentice and later partner of Sherlock Holmes, narrates the stories. King, in an example of her numor, has just had Mary get a knife slash across the top of her wrist. She is in a chapel in a church in Palestine on a life-saving mission. She is accompanied in this chapel by the guides Ali and Mahmoud; they are attempting to capture the mastermind behind the plot to kill General Allenby and the gathering of VIPs while at the Dome of the Rock. Mahmoud has just shot the perpetrator which saves Russell’s life. The final sentence in that chapter reads :Had I not been so occupied with reassuring the monks that I was not bleeding to death, I would have embraced Mahmoud with all the passion in my young, rescued body, embarrassing us both forever.”
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