The Private Wife of Sherlock Holmes

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IRENE ADLER . . . The Woman. THE woman—who outwitted the world's greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. The formidable Irene is back at 221B, outraging both Watson and Mrs. Hudson alike by claiming to be Mrs. Sherlock Holmes. It’s just the opening salvo in a wickedly twisted case of blackmail involving a Royal Personage and the use of the latest in Victorian technology, a gramophone. All she needs is the help of Sherlock Holmes to save a friend from a terrible fate, but is the great detective up to the task of invading a –gasp—brothel? There is only one way to find out! Read about her further adventures after she bested Holmes in "A Scandal in Bohemia," as written by New York Times Notable Book of the Year author Carole Nelson Douglas , author of the acclaimed Good Night, Mr. Holmes and seven other novels following the adventures of Irene Adler. “The dashing heroine in Carole Nelson Douglas’s enchanting Victorian series” is "a Victorian age Ms. who blithely flouts conventions and triumphs in not one, but two careers—opera diva and detective” . . . “unconventional, irreverent, at least a century before her time—witty, competent, competitive, adventurous and like Holmes himself, fascinated with the curious and the criminal” . . . “the only woman Sherlock Holmes admired and indeed she lives up to the honor.” -- Publisher’s Weekly “I think Carole Nelson Douglas has told the exact truth about Ms. Adler, and whenever I reread “ A Scandal in Bohemia ” that truth will be part of the story for me.” —Chris Redmond, B.S.I., ASH in The Waterloo Sherlockian Letter. "It's an amusing story, involving Holmes and Irene meeting the Prince of Wales in a house of ill repute."—Peter E. Blau, B.S.I., editor, Scuttlebutt newsletter from the Spermaceti Press. “To capture the attention of the misogynistic and asexual Mr. Holmes, a woman would need to be quite remarkable, and Douglas’s Irene is beyond remarkable." —Mary Willis Walker in Mostly Murder. “Douglas has made Adler a superb detective and invented a perfectly delightful—and perfectly puzzling—series of cases for her.” —Judy Alter, The Fort Worth Press. “Plenty of Sherlockian deductions, even from Sherlock Holmes himself, who plays a good role in all the intrigue. But it’s Irene’s show all the way, and highly entertaining. You won’t be disappointed!”—Mostly Murder.