Waiting on Wednesday (17) - Pirate King

This event is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine and features books that we are eagerly anticipating. My choice for this week is:

Pirate King

by Laurie R. King

Publisher: Bantam

Available on September 6th

11th in the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series

     In England’s young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. Nevertheless, at the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate rumors of criminal activities that swirl around Fflytte’s popular movie studio. So Russell is traveling undercover to Portugal, along with the film crew that is gearing up to shoot a cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King. Based on Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, the project will either set the standard for moviemaking for a generation . . . or sink a boatload of careers.

     Nothing seems amiss until the enormous company starts rehearsals in Lisbon, where the thirteen blond-haired, blue-eyed actresses whom Mary is bemusedly chaperoning meet the swarm of real buccaneers Fflytte has recruited to provide authenticity. But when the crew embarks for Morocco and the actual filming, Russell feels a building storm of trouble: a derelict boat, a film crew with secrets, ominous currents between the pirates, decks awash with budding romance—and now the pirates are ignoring Fflytte and answering only to their dangerous outlaw leader. Plus, there’s a spy on board. Where can Sherlock Holmes be? As movie make-believe becomes true terror, Russell and Holmes themselves may experience a final fadeout.

Have you read this series?  The first book, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, was published in 1994.  I loved that book and have read it more than once.  I am not totally current in reading this series, but I find it fascinating that enough time has passed for Mary and Holmes that motion pictures are actually being made.  Wow.  I'm still thinking of them in an earlier time.  Anyway, this one sounds quite interesting.  Laurie R. King's series continues with more fascinating adventures for this most intellectual couple.