this thrilling new novel ingeniously Bridges Lori r. King 's. Edgar and Chrisley awards winning Kate martinelli series and her New York times. best-selling series starring Mary Russell.. here, San Francisco homicide detective Kate martinelli crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes... or does she? Kate martinelli has seen her share of peculiar things at murder scenes but never anything quite like this and ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story- complete with gunshots in the wallpaper. the spell out the initials of the lake Queen. Philip Gilbert was a homes fanatic a leading expert with a collection of priceless memorabilia- a collection some would kill for. and perhaps someone did, for it includes a century-old manuscript purportedly written by Holmes himself, one that yearly echoes details of Gilbert's own murder. now Kate must follow the convoluted trail of a killer who may have trained at the feet of the greatest mind of all time.