Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Quiz

Answer: Sussex

Holmes had retired to the Sussex Downs to keep bees and study their behavior.

Answer: 15

"I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him." - Chapter One, "The Beekeeper's Apprentice".

"The Beekeeper's Apprentice" is the first book in the series. The others, in publication order, are "A Monstrous Regiment of Women", "A Letter of Mary", "The Moor", "O Jerusalem" and "Justice Hall".

Answer: Amir

She was disguised as an Arab boy. These adventures are told in "O Jerusalem."

Answer: Mary Magdalene

The letter was discovered by an archeologist friend. Mary Small was an alias used by Russell while investigating the case. Mary Shelley was the author of "Frankenstein" (and does not appear in this book).

Answer: chemistry and theology

In "A Monstrous Regiment of Women" Mary explains the similarity of these subjects: "Chemistry involves the workings of the physical universe, theology those of the human universe. There are behaviour patterns common to both."

While at Oxford Mary also participated in the amateur dramatic society and studied mathematics. Her mathematics tutor plays an important role in "The Beekeeper's Apprentice."

Answer: Erica Ruskin

She used Amir while disguised as an Arab youth in Palestine in "O Jerusalem", Mary Todd while disguised as a gypsy in Wales in "The Beekeeper's Apprentice", and Ratnakar Sanji as a prank while studying at Oxford.

Answer: Christian

Margery Childe was a feminist preacher in "A Monstrous Regiment of Women." She was extremely interested in Mary's reinterpretation of scriptures.

Answer: Berkshire

They worked for the British secret service in Palestine. Holmes originally stated in "The Beekeeper's Apprentice" that their accents identified them as being from Clapham, but their actual identities as British nobility are established in "Justice Hall."

Answer: godfather

Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould was a writer, the composer of "Onward Christian Soldiers" and other hymns, and a collector of English and Irish folksongs. Baring-Gould summoned Holmes to Dartmoor for help in "The Moor".

Answer: Emmeline Pankhurst

Russell met "an odd man named Tolkien, a reader in English literature at Leeds who has a passion for Anglo-Saxon poetry and runes and such" while conducting an investigation at Oxford in "A Letter of Mary." Tolkien went on to write "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings."

Russell enlists Lord Peter's help in concealing her true identity from her employer, while posing as a secretary in "A Letter of Mary." Lord Peter is a fictional detective created by Dorothy Sayers.

Russell and Holmes meet Lawrence in Palestine in "O Jerusalem." Lawrence's story is dramatized in the film "Lawrence of Arabia."
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British suffragist.