O Jerusalem

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(Preface and Book One) of the sweeping History written by the brilliant fourteenth-century Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldûn. These quotations have been reworded slightly for the sake of brevity by the present editor.

Helen Waddell, The Desert Fathers

The Holy Qur’an

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,

let my right hand forget its cunning.

PSALM 137:5

EDITOR’S REMARKS

The story that follows is a chapter in the life of Mary Russell, whose hand-written manuscripts I was sent some years ago (along with a puzzling collection of other objects, most of which have their explanations within the manuscripts themselves). The present volume, however, is published out of sequence, as it describes events that took place in 1919, during the period of the story I transcribed and published as The Beekeeper’s Apprentice . The Russell/Holmes saga has now reached 1923 with The Moor; yet in the current work, O Jerusalem , Russell is still little more than the great detective’s apprentice.

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