A Monstrous Regiment of Women
- set item rating to 0.5 out of 5.
- set item rating to 1 out of 5.
- set item rating to 1.5 out of 5.
- set item rating to 2 out of 5.
- set item rating to 2.5 out of 5.
- set item rating to 3 out of 5.
- set item rating to 3.5 out of 5.
- set item rating to 4 out of 5.
- set item rating to 4.5 out of 5.
- set item rating to 5 out of 5.
Add a Comment
Add Tags
Add More
Save to a List
-
Save to a Shared List
Print
Details
- Description
- Full Record
- Author Notes
- Contents
- Excerpts
- Reviews
- Summary
- A\\V Summary
- Preview
Searching for more content…
A Monstrous Regiment of Women continues Mary Russell's adventures as a worthy student of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and as an ever more skilled sleuth in her own right. Looking for respite in London after a stupefying visit from relatives, Mary encounters a friend from Oxford. The young woman
… More »A Monstrous Regiment of Women continues Mary Russell's adventures as a worthy student of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and as an ever more skilled sleuth in her own right. Looking for respite in London after a stupefying visit from relatives, Mary encounters a friend from Oxford. The young woman introduces Mary to her current enthusiasm, a strange and enigmatic woman named Margery Childe, who leads something called "The New Temple of God." It seems to be a charismatic sect involved in the post-World War I suffrage movement, with a feminist slant on Christianity. Mary is curious about the woman, and intrigued. Is the New Temple a front for something more sinister? When a series of murders claims members of the movement's wealthy young female volunteers and principal contributors, Mary, with Holmes in the background, begins to investigate. Things become more desperate than either of them expected as Mary's search plunges her into the worst danger she has yet faced.
« Lessa Mary Russell novel
Includes discussion questions and author interview.
Community Activity
Find it at DBRL
Loading...
Comment
Add a CommentThe extraordinary minds of the Sherlock Holmes/Mary Russell team that debuted in The Beekeeper's Apprentice, the first book in this series, aren't nearly as vividly displayed in A Monstrous Regiment of Women. That took away a lot of the fun so evident in the first novel. Monstrous Regiment got really interesting about two-thirds of the way through, but until then I was confused at all the time spent exploring the beliefs and oddities of Margery Childs and her entourage. I just didn't see the point. I'm still a fan of the Mary Russell series, but I hope the next book recaptures the fun of the first.
Decent fiction on feminism during the post war in London centered on a newly minted Oxford Graduate who shared off-the-chart deductive powess as her soon to be husband Sherlock Holmes. Apparently published in 1995 well before my reading days of fiction. King's books are a much needed excursion from current crop of women mystery writers...more edgy and as daring as Sue Grafton.