If you read and love paranormal stories, you will love this series.The 1st book is the building blocks for the series, I noted some of the comments on book 1. personally I had no trouble with the scenes ,I had no problem following scene to scene as for the names being spelt wrong. I didn't notice...
I began reading Silver Zombie expecting action and the dangerous situations that Delilah seems to keep finding herself in, but sadly was left wanting. When I reached the end of the book, I was thinking, "That's it? Where was the climatic ending, with my dose of Delilah triumph?". I guess the only...
Wild & wooly, and at this point, SH is immaterial, a compliment. Irene is now a fully-formed character, & so much more satisfying than the petty criminals & sexual tramps that the menfolk make her into. I include Moffat & co. of Sherlock BBC, who have completely screwed up The Adler. She make you...
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 to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes. An operatic diva and the intellectual equal of most of the men she encounters, Irene is as mu...
This book was quite interesting becuase it actually starts from Irene Norton (Adler) who was known in one of Holmes adventures- "A scandal in Bohemia". Holes was eventaully was tricked by Irene, and eventually escapes. However, the newspaper said that both Godfrey Norton (Irene's husband) and Ire...
Opera singer. Adventuress. American abroad. Irene Adler is all of this...and is also the only woman to ever have outwitted the great man, Sherlock Holmes. In Carole Nelson Douglas's novel Spider Dance, Irene has finally come home after numerous adventures, not out of loyalty to her native shores ...
Desde que descobri a existência de uma série literária tendo como protagonista ‘A Mulher’ que estou me coçando para ler esse título. Irene Adler aparece em um único conto das dezenas de histórias que Conan Doyle escreveu para o mais famoso detetive da ficção, e é um testemunho ao engenho do autor...
If you love Sherlock Holmes and Victorian mystery, you will most assuredly enjoy Carole Nelson Douglas' "Irene At Large.” This is the third tale which Douglas has crafted using Doyle’s Irene Adler as a central character. How interesting and enjoyable it is to see Adler developed into an even more...
Midnight Louie, black cat detective, is hunting a mysterious organization of renegade magicians called the Synth. In this, the fourteenth Midnight Louie mystery, Louie’s daughter Midnight Louise--and some of her friends--join the nations number-one cat sleuth as he trails a Synth illusionist and ...
What's a Girl to do when she's forced to be, well, a girl?That's what's hot shot freelance PR woman and amateur detective Temple Barr has to do when as a favor to top cop Carmen Molina she goes undercover at Teen Queen, the newest pop star-search reality TV show, all in the hopes of protecting Mo...
Irene Adler is the only woman ever to have outwitted Sherlock Holmes in A Scandal in Bohemia; she is as much at home with a spyglass and revolver than with haute couture and gala balls. Her adventures are the stuff of legend, for she has faced down sinister spies, thwarted plots against nations, ...
It was the revelation of the millennium: witches, werewolves, vampires and other supernaturals are real. Fast-forward 13 years: TV reporter Delilah Street used to cover the small-town bogeyman beat back in Kansas, but now, in high-octane Las Vegas which is run by a werewolf mob she finds herself ...
When a beautiful, emaciated woman is found on a remote cliff, completely naked and apparently lacking all memory of who she is, psychoanalyst Kevin Blake is assigned to the case and becomes obsessed with unlocking her memory. Reprint. AB.
A psychiatrist risks his career and his life to protect a woman known only as Jane Doe from the government agents who are seeking to tap her unknown, alien powers. This sequel to Probe features an ingenuous heroine and a resourceful hero caught in an incredulous situation.
Midnight Louie, jet-black feline sleuth with an attitude, si on the prowl again--and this tme to a rock'n'roll soundtrack. Louie's human partner, Temple Barr, learns that the remodeling of a local hotel is being held up by a ghost--and no ordinary ghost at that. In fact, the workmen sware it's no...
A rather weak one, perhaps, to be so easily led from domestic and professional rectitude by an individual as apparently erratic as this Sherlock Holmes. Certainly I had wondered whether Watson had in fact visited Briony Lodge in company with the vaunted detective and the foiled King. I remembered...
. . .This prodigy of nature is the general topic of conversationin the metropolis.—JOHN FAIRBURN, 1815I slept like the dead that night, exhausted by my previous worries, dreaming I was a compass point fixed upon a hand, spinning round and round, as in a waltz.Irene always ordered breakfast in our...
Matt said. He already had, far too long. “I suppose it’d be easy to lose Kathleen if I dodged into a megahotel.”“Use a phony name. Pay cash at the front desk like a big winner. Take one room there and then call down and change it. Find something wrong. Somebody smoked in a nonsmoking suite, that ...
Mr. Holmes said when I presented myself at 221B at five o’clock that afternoon. “A far more impressive ensemble than your guise as Polly the Parlor Maid earlier today.” “You saw me? I did not see you.” “That was my intention.” “Were you the beggar on the pavement?” “No, my dear madam.” “The ‘copp...
Irene drew back a chintz curtain and frowned at the moonlight bathing our front garden. “I loathe full moons.”She was clad again in utter black, on this occasion a well-cut gentleman’s suit. Her dark hair’s red-gold luster was snuffed by a black beret. Godfrey, also black-garbed from toe to colla...