The Game (King novel)

The Game

Author	Laurie R. King
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Mary Russell
Genre	Detective fiction
Publisher	St. Martin's Press
Publication date	2004
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
ISBN	0-553-80194-5
OCLC	52948593
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3561.I4813 G36 2004
Preceded by	Justice Hall
Followed by	Locked Rooms

The Game is the seventh book in the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King, which focuses on the adventures of Russell and her partner and, later, husband, an aging Sherlock Holmes.

Plot

Kimball O'Hara, the "Kim" of the famous Rudyard Kipling novel, has disappeared. Fearing a geopolitical crisis in the making, Mycroft Holmes sends his brother and Mary to India to uncover what happened. En route, they encounter the insufferable Tom Goodheart—a wealthy young American who has embraced Communism—traveling with his mother and sister to visit his maharaja friend, Jumalpandra ("Jimmy"), an impossibly rich and charming ruler of the (fictional) Indian state of Khanpur. With some local intelligence supplied by Geoffrey Nesbit, an English agent taught by Kim, and accompanied by Bindra, a resourceful orphan, the couple travel incognito as native magicians. Ultimately, their journey intersects with the paths of the Goodhearts, Jimmy, and the enigmatic Kim.

Timeline

The book takes place in the early weeks of 1924, a few weeks after the events of Justice Hall.

External links

Laurie R. King official website

Works by Laurie R. King

Kate Martinelli	A Grave Talent (1993) To Play the Fool (1995) With Child (1996) Night Work (2000) The Art of Detection (2006)

Mary Russell	The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994) A Monstrous Regiment of Women (1995) A Letter of Mary (1997) The Moor (1998) O Jerusalem (1999) Justice Hall (2002) The Game (2004) Locked Rooms (2005) The Language of Bees (2009) The God of the Hive (2010) Beekeeping for Beginners (2011) Pirate King (2011) Garment of Shadows (2012) Dreaming Spies (2015) The Murder of Mary Russell (2016)

Stuyvesant and Grey	Touchstone (2007) The Bones of Paris (2013)

Other novels	A Darker Place (1999) Folly (novel) (2001) Keeping Watch (2003) Califia's Daughters (as Leigh Richards) (2004)

Sherlock Holmes novels by people other than Arthur Conan Doyle

Young Sherlock Holmes by Andy Lane	Death Cloud (2010) Red Leech (2010) Black Ice (2011) Fire Storm (2011) Snake Bite (2012) Knife Edge (2013) Stone Cold (2014) Night Break (2015)

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr	"The Adventure of the Seven Clocks" (1954) "The Adventure of the Gold Hunter" (1954) "The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers" (1954) "The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle" (1954) "The Adventure of the Black Baronet" (1954) "The Adventure of the Sealed Room" (1954 "The Adventure of Foulkes Rath" (1954) "The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" (1954) "The Adventure of the Dark Angels" (1954) "The Adventure of the Two Women" (1954) "The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" (1954) "The Adventure of the Red Widow" (1954)

by Nicholas Meyer	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974) The West End Horror (1976) The Canary Trainer (1993)

Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King	The Beekeeper's Apprentice A Monstrous Regiment of Women A Letter of Mary The Moor O Jerusalem Justice Hall The Game Locked Rooms The Language of Bees The God of the Hive Pirate King Garment of Shadows Dreaming Spies

by David Stuart Davies	Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (1991) The Tangled Skein (1995) The Scroll of the Dead (1998) Shadow of the Rat (1999) The Veiled Detective (2004) The Devil's Promise (2014) The Ripper Legacy (2016)

by Barrie Roberts	Sherlock Holmes and the Man from Hell (1997) Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (2002)

by Anthony Horowitz	The House of Silk (2011) Moriarty (2014)

Other works	Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897) A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902) The Ultimate Crime (1976) The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) "The Doctor's Case" (1987) The Whitechapel Horrors (1993) All-Consuming Fire (1994) The Strange Case of Mrs. Hudson's Cat (1997) The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (1999) Shadows Over Baker Street (2003) "A Study in Emerald" (2003) Sherlock Holmes: The Way of All Flesh (2004) The Final Solution (2004) A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005) The Italian Secretary (2005) Erasing Sherlock (2006) Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (2006) Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong (2007) The Boy Sherlock Holmes (2007–12) Gaslight series (2008) Dust and Shadow (2009) The Devil and Sherlock Holmes (2010) Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (2011) Dead Man's Land (2013)

Parody	The Enola Holmes Mysteries Everybody's Favorite Duck The Adventure of the Peerless Peer The Fossil Island Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries Sherlock Bones Solar Pons Stoker and Holmes Thuppariyum Sambu

Related	Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes

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