When several young women are discovered brutally slaughtered in a Parisian brothel, the police bring in Irene Adler, who first appeared in "Goodnight, Mr. Holmes". The true horror--and the thing that has Irene most concerned--is that the killings bear an uncanny resemblance to a series of murders that took place in London just a short time earlier.
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When several young women are discovered brutally slaughtered in a Parisian brothel, the police bring in Irene Adler, who first appeared in "Goodnight, Mr. Holmes". The true horror--and the thing that has Irene most concerned--is that the killings bear an uncanny resemblance to a series of murders that took place in London just a short time earlier.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. AP2-A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has a few tears on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some wrinkling and crease, light discoloration and shelf wear. A Novel of Suspense Featuring Irene Adler, Sherlock Holmes, and Jack the Ripper. 8.5"x5.75", 494 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. IRENE ADLER RETURNS! Before Caleb Carr and Laurie R. King, Carole Nelson Douglas gave readers a compelling look into Victoriana with a bold new detective character: Irene Adler, the only woman ever to have "outwitted" Sherlock Holmes. An operatic diva and intellectual equal (and some would say superior) to most of the men she encounters, Irene is a much at home with disguises and a revolver as with high society and haute couture. We at Forge are delighted to publish a new work in Carole Nelson Douglas's critically acclaimed Irene Adler series, which reinvents "the woman" that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced in "A Scandal in Bohemia" as the heroine of her own extravagant adventures set against a richly researched and significant historical backdrop. This time, the story thrusts readers into one of the darkest periods of criminal fact and fiction when two courtesans are found brutally slaughtered in the lavish boudoir of a Paris house that dare not speak its name. no woman should ever see such horrors, authorities declare, but a powerful sponsor has insisted that Irene investigate the case, along with her faithful companion, sheltered parson's daughter Penelope Huxleigh. Yet does anyone really seek the truth, or do they wish only to bury the dead women? For there is a worse horror that will draw Irene and her archival, Sherlock Holmes, into a duel of wits with a fiendish opponent: These Paris killings mimic a series of gruesome murders that terrorized London only months before. In a dangerous and disreputable part of town known as Whitechapel...
This book, and its sequel, "Castel Rouge" are part of Ms Douglas' series of pastiches on the Sherlock Holmes canon. For me, she does an excellent job. She selected, as her protagonist, a character from "A Scandal in Bohemia," one of the best known of the Holmes short stories. Using her, Irene Adler, in this way cleverly ties together both Doyle's stories and those of Ms Douglas. The pacing of the tale is excellent, and the cliff-hangers at the end of the chapters keep this book in the class of a page-turner. There is plenty of action, both from the protagonist and from Mr. Holmes. The two books represent an exploration of the Jack the Ripper mythos that have formed the center of many another story. They are well told and have many plot twists to keep the reader interested. I would certainly recommend this book, and its sequel, to anyone who had even a passing interest in the Holmes stories.