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The Game is the seventh in the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series by Laurie R King. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US. I've read and enjoyed pretty much all of this series.

link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC1AG6

Spoiler:

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Laurie R. King's Garment of Shadows.

It’s only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year’s visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O’Hara—the same Kimball known to the world through Kipling’s famed Kim. Inexplicably, O’Hara withdrew from the "Great Game" of espionage and now he has just as inexplicably disappeared.

When Russell discovers Holmes’s own secret friendship with the spy, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But Russell soon learns that in this faraway and exotic land, it’s often impossible to tell friend from foe—and that some games aren’t played for fun but for the highest stakes of all…life and death.

Note (marginally connected to this topic, since the Great Game period provides background for King's The Game): I've really enjoyed reading some of Peter Hopkirk's non-fiction titles about the Great Game, so if you get inspired by some of the fiction set in this period and want to read up on the actual history, Hopkirk's books are not too ridiculously expensive and get generally good reviews. And what was going on during that period is so wild that the non-fiction practically reads like fiction . I especially like the book where Hopkirk traces Kipling's Kim's route in modern day India and Pakistan, which especially ties into this book, but I've enjoyed all that I've read.