Mary Russell

Mary Russell is a fictional character in a book series by Laurie R. King. Most of the novels are told in first-person retrospective from Mary Russell's point of view. Locked Rooms is the exception, with approximately a third of the book in the third person. So far the novels have been set in the Teens and Twenties of the early 20th century. King's introductions to each novel form part of an ongoing frame story about a mystery writer who is anonymously sent Mary Russell's memoirs in manuscript form and attempts to determine who sent them and why. The daughter of a British Jewish mother and an American millionaire father, the fifteen-year-old Russell is sent to Sussex, after the death of her parents and brother in a car accident, to live with her aunt on the eve of World War I. There she becomes the partner, and later wife, to Sherlock Holmes. Mary Russell is an Oxford scholar of theology and chemistry. She is tall and slim, with strawberry-blonde hair, and blue eyes. She usually wears... full article at wikipedia