Author: | Carole Nelson Douglas | ISBN: | 1230000135756 |
Publisher: | Wishlist Publishing | Publication: | January 4, 2013 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Carole Nelson Douglas |
ISBN: | 1230000135756 |
Publisher: | Wishlist Publishing |
Publication: | January 4, 2013 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
Winner of the American Mystery Award for Best Novel of Romantic suspense and RT Book Reviews Award for Best Historical Mystery.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s included short story, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” introduced both Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler: “She has a soul of steel. . . the face of the most beautiful of women and the mind of the most resolute of men.”
American aspiring opera singer Irene Adler rescues orphaned parson’s daughter Penelope Huxleigh from a London cutpurse, it starts a crime-solving alliance as strong as that of Holmes and Watson. Irene moonlights as a private inquiry agent while awaiting her career break, which brings her into the orbits of such luminaries as Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker and puts her on the trail on Marie Antoinette’s fabulous lost diamond belt. Her investigations also introduce her to a certain dashing barrister, Mr. Godfrey Norton. A prestigious assignment as prima donna at the Prague opera house almost makes Irene the Queen of Bohemia, but a royal murder and caddish Prince force her to flee back to London . . . where she will become the only woman to outwit Sherlock Holmes.
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
Winner of the American Mystery Award for Best Novel of Romantic suspense and RT Book Reviews Award for Best Historical Mystery.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s included short story, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” introduced both Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler: “She has a soul of steel. . . the face of the most beautiful of women and the mind of the most resolute of men.”
American aspiring opera singer Irene Adler rescues orphaned parson’s daughter Penelope Huxleigh from a London cutpurse, it starts a crime-solving alliance as strong as that of Holmes and Watson. Irene moonlights as a private inquiry agent while awaiting her career break, which brings her into the orbits of such luminaries as Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker and puts her on the trail on Marie Antoinette’s fabulous lost diamond belt. Her investigations also introduce her to a certain dashing barrister, Mr. Godfrey Norton. A prestigious assignment as prima donna at the Prague opera house almost makes Irene the Queen of Bohemia, but a royal murder and caddish Prince force her to flee back to London . . . where she will become the only woman to outwit Sherlock Holmes.