![]() ![]() ![]() An orphaned English boy turned loose in India, Kim long used his cunning to spy for the Crown. The oilskin-wrapped packet contains the papers of a missing English spy named Kimball O'Haraâindeed, the same Kimball who served as the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's famed Kim. Mycroft, who has ties to the highest levels of the government, has just received a strange package. But the fragile peace will be fleetingâfor a visit with Holmes's gravely ill brother, Mycroft, brings news of an intrigue that is sure to halt their respite. ![]() It's the second day of the new year, 1924, and Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a rich and atmospheric tale that takes them to India to save the life of one of literature's most fabled heroes. King's bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Signed by author without inscription on bookplate mounted on page opposite title page. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Richard Price, the developer and showrunner of the miniseries adaptation of The Outsider reworked the character to some extent, without keeping the continuity with the Mr. Characterization in The Outsider miniseries In Holly, Gibney returns as a solo private detective. ![]() In Finders Keepers she has evolved into a private detective in partnership with Hodges. Mercedes her intelligence and courage play a major role in assisting main protagonist, Bill Hodges, to bring down the villain. Mercedes, where she is first shown as a shy (but brave and ethical) recluse with many emotional issues and social awkwardness. She has been described as "very observant, refreshingly unfiltered and unaware of her innocence" with "savant-like memory, razor sharp observation skills", as well as "a computer whiz". ![]() King has characterized Gibney as "an obsessive compulsive with a huge inferiority complex". She has been portrayed on screen by Justine Lupe in the television adaptation of the Hodges trilogy and by Cynthia Erivo in the miniseries adaptation of The Outsider. Mercedes, Finders Keepers and End of Watch), she later appears as a major supporting character in The Outsider and as the main character in "If It Bleeds", a novella included in the collection of the same name. Originally appearing in the Bill Hodges trilogy of novels ( Mr. Holly Gibney is a fictional character created by American author Stephen King. ![]() ![]() ![]() But there's only one bard capable of drawing the spirits forth by song: her childhood enemy, Jack Tamerlaine. ![]() The capricious spirits that live there find mirth in the lives of the humans who call the land home, but that mischief turns to malevolence as girls begin to go missing.Īdaira, heiress of the east, knows the spirits only answer to a bard's music, enticing them to return the missing girls. Enchantments run deep on the magical Isle of Cadence. ![]() A sparkling debut fantasy with Celtic tones set on the magical isle of Cadence where two childhood enemies must team up to discover why girls are going missing from their clan. ![]() ![]() ![]() His storytelling father, a newspaperman, died when Howe was eight years old, widowing his mother and making money scarce. “I thought this was the most fascinating stuff imaginable.” Coming from Denver to Harvard was, in those days, still vaguely unusual: Denver was remote and provincial, far from the colorful melting pots of 19th century New Orleans, or ancient Rome. “I got interested in history when I was about six years old and my father sat me on his lap and told me about Hannibal crossing the Alps with elephants to fight the Romans,” Howe said. The diverse internationalism of such a scene must have particularly piqued the interest of Howe, Harvard graduate and Professor Emeritus of both Oxford and UCLA, who once dreamed of ancient overseas battles as a young boy growing up in Denver. ![]() Orders were translated into Spanish, French, and Choctaw. The “Americans” hailed from Louisiana, Haiti, Kentucky, encompassing crack Irish-American units, freed slaves, and wary Native Americans. The opening scene of Daniel Walker Howe ’59’s Pulitzer Prize winning history, “What Hath God Wrought,” artistically depicts the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, which pitted British regulars against a heterogeneous American force. ![]() |