I think this is the first time I re-read The Beekeeper's Apprentice, the first book in Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell series. As with many series, the first book is clearly made with a series in mind, but not with the specific series as it turned out. Reading it in hindsight, as it were, highlights some things to the detriment of others. For instance, the interlude where Russell and Holmes go to Palestine contains a few outright inconsistencies with O Jerusalem, which can be explained away, but are still annoying. Also, the proto-story of the Welsh Kidnapping works, and works in much the same way the later books work, while the second story of the Maths Tutor Revealed doesn’t work, and doesn’t work in much the same way that the later books don’t work.
Still, a comforting sort of book to re-read.
chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,
-Vardibidian.