Good Night, Mr. Holmes: A Victorian Mystery Book (Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes novels 1)

Irene Adler--the only woman ever to outwit Sherlock Holmes, was a character first introduced in Arthur Conan Doyle's short story called "A Scandal in Bohemia." In GOODNIGHT MR. HOLMES, Carole Nelson Douglas reveals Irene's side of the story in what has been named by Romantic Times as one of the "Best Historical Mysteries" of the year--and it's not quite as cut and dried as Dr. Watson would like you to think.. Irene Adler "has a soul of steel...the face of the most beautiful of women and the mind of the most resolute of men." When 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 operatic career break, which brings her into the orbits of such luminaries as Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker and puts her on the trail of Marie Antoinette's fabulous lost diamond belt. 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.. GOOD NIGHT, MR. HOLMES is the first of eight Irene Adler novels and was named THE NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR. It also won the Romantic Times American Mystery Award for BEST NOVEL OF ROMANTIC SUSPENSE and the Romantic Times Book Reviews Award for BEST HISTORICAL MYSTERY. Lovers of Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler, and Historical Victorian Mystery Books in general will be delighted.