![]() ![]() ![]() If anything, his aloofness was protection.” “I found this man who was not aloof and cold. He’s a man who’s deeply committed to his work, passionate about the need of restoring fairness and justice in the world,” King said. “But I was fascinated how in the stories, he was not. “You often think of him as a boys-only adventure … a thinking machine,” she said. So, as King told me, she began researching Holmes, “and I discovered that he was rather a different character than what I had expected.” ![]() “However, within a few paragraphs, I ran into a problem: I knew almost nothing about the man she was patterned on (and would be partnered with) apart from vague memories of stories read in childhood colored by contemporary television adaptations.” In an introduction to the 20th anniversary edition of the novel, King said she “envisioned the coming-of-age tale of a young, female, 20th-century Sherlock Holmes.” When King first began writing her Mary Russell series, the subject of this spring’s Amarillo Reads events, the author thought Holmes wouldn’t play too large a role – even though the first line of her first book, 1994’s “The Beekeeper’s Apprentice,” was “I was 15 when I first met Sherlock Holmes.” King wasn’t too much of a fan of Sherlock Holmes – despite creating a character who would eventually marry the storied detective. By Chip Chandler - Digital Content ProducerĪt first, mystery author Laurie R. ![]()
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