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Good Night Mr. Holmes - Hardcover

Book 1 of 4: Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes novels

Douglas, Carole Nelson

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9780312932107: Good Night Mr. Holmes
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0312932103 ISBN 13: 9780312932107
Publisher: Tor Books, 1990

Synopsis

Her mission on behalf of Oscar Wilde, her discovery of Marie Antoinette's Zone of Diamonds, her capture of a murderer in Bohemia, her insights into Bram Stoker's tea party, and her battle with Sherlock Holmes, all demonstrate the genius of Miss Irene Adler

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YA-- Irene Adler was the only woman that Sherlock Holmes admired. They met in Scandal in Bohemia --she outwitted the great detective and she was never heard from again. Who was she? What was her background? What happened to her? This fascinating book answers these questions and many more. Adler's adventures as an opera singer to those of a detective from London to Prague to Paris are chronicled by her own "Dr. Watson" in the personage of her friend Penelope Huxleigh. Douglas also presents a portrait of women in late Victorian society from a woman's point of view. This book will encourage YAs to read the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and other literature from that era.
- Roberta Lisker, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Setting herself the task of creating a heroine worthy of Sherlock Holmes, Douglas, a Texas writer of science fiction ( Counterprobe ), succeeds smashingly. In providing an inventive, believable past for Irene Adler, the one woman (and an American at that) who ever duped Holmes, Douglas writes in a voice that resonates of Dr. Watson's (or Conan Doyle's) when appropriate, and links Adler's adventures with information offered about her in Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia." Narrated with credible Victorian style and sensibility by Penelope "Nell" Huxleigh, a parson's daughter, this lively caper establishes Adler's sleuthing skills as she solves cases that involve Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker, among others. The novel has more going for it than the usual Holmesian pastiche, presenting a truly original perspective of the one whom the great detective himself dubbed "the woman." She's a superior woman at that: readers will doff their deerstalkers.
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Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0312932103
ISBN 13 
9780312932107
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
408
Rating
  • 3.89 out of 5 stars
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