"Pirate King" by Laurie R. King ****

• Audiobook
• Originally published 2009
• #11 in Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series
• US author
• Review:   What do you get when you combine Shakespeare's play within a play within a play, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance" and Fernando Pessoa as translator/anarchist/poet/philosopher?  Why what could it possibly be but the 11th installment of Laurie R. King's Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series.  Mary finds herself "awash in a sea of megalomaniacs" and having a rollicking, swashbuckling adventure.  I really enjoyed King's witty writing and chuckled out loud several times. You don't have to have read the earlier novels, but I think they are worth reading and just enhance the level of enjoyment, particularly in terms of the Russell-Holmes interactions.  Fun read!