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, ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...