The Adventuress
Authors: Carole Nelson Douglas
Tags: #Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, #Mystery, #British Detectives, #Historical, #irene adler, #sherlock holmes
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Praise for THE ADVENTURESS
“Some women are just born to have grand adventures. Such a woman—
the
woman to the bewitched Sherlock Holmes—was the American actress Irene Adler, who shrugged off her untimely literary demise in "A Scandal in Bohemia" to reappear as the heroine of Carole Nelson Douglas's captivating history mystery,
Good Night, Mr. Holmes
. This vibrant creature is back..., holding court in Paris and laughing up her fashionable sleeve at the rumors of her death.... "Independence," Irene says, "does wonders for a woman.”—Marilyn Stasio,
The New York Times
“an absorbing, witty adventure that all mystery fans, including serious Holmes devotees, will find a delight.”—
West Coast Review of Books
“Douglas dazzles us again with the continuing chronicles of the Great Detective's greatest rival... wonderful prose makes every word and phrase a sheer delight to read. Add clever plotting and a subtle touch of the absurd, and this novel leaves no doubt that Douglas is destined to become one of the first ladies of the mystery scene."—
RT Book Reviews
“
Good Night, Mr. Holmes
was an impressive enough performance to demand an encore.... this new yarn is a rollicking and complex story brimming with Victorian atmosphere.”—
Publishers Weekly
"a very clever and accomplished novelist...this old, jaded, tired reader was seat-glued."—
John Bennett Shaw
, B.S.I., eminent Sherlockian
"From France to Monte Carlo, three main characters blaze through the pages of
The Adventuress
, a late-Victorian-era mystery... clever wit, plot, and fascinating characters."—
VOYA
IRENE ADLER ADVENTURES:
Good Night, Mr. Holmes
The Adventuress
*
(formerly
Good Morning, Irene
)
A Soul of Steel
*
(formerly
(Irene at Large
)
Another Scandal in Bohemia
*
(formerly
Irene’s Last Waltz
)
Chapel Noir
Castle Rouge
Femme Fatale
Spider Dance
SHORTER FICTION
The Private Wife of Sherlock Holmes
*These are revised editions
THE ADVENTURESS
A novel of suspense featuring Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes
by
CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS
AUTHOR’S NOTE
:
This eBook contains minor material not in the original hardcover and paperback editions of this novel. The original title,
Good Morning, Irene
, was changed because another publisher started using confusingly similar titles to mine.
The Adventuress
is the fourth novel about Irene Adler, the only woman to outwit the great detective. It has never been published in eBook, so I’m delighted to be able to make it available again. (Caution: eBooks are a fluid technology; minor typos that can’t be eliminated may rarely appear.) I hope you enjoy this novel—as well as the next four novels featuring Irene Adler’s detecting career and future encounters with Sherlock Holmes, and various Adler novellas. A Reader’s Guide for discussion groups is at the end of this eBook. Thanks for your interest and support.
—Carole Nelson Douglas
Copyright
The Adventuress
Copyright 1991, formerly published as Good Morning, Irene
First Kindle edition Copyright November 2012 Carole Nelson Douglas
eBook published by Wishlist Publishing
Proofreader: Pat Martin
Images Copyright iStock.com
Cover design and cameo: Jennifer Waddell Null
Irene Adler silhouette Copyright 1990 by Carole Nelson Douglas
Author photo by Sam Douglas
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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“She has a soul of steel... the face of the most beautiful of women and the mind of the most resolute of men.”
For the late Betty Roney,
an exquisite writer,
and an even better friend
CAST OF CONTINUING CHARACTERS
IRENE ADLER
:
an American opera singer abroad, introduced in the first of Sir Arthur Conan’s Doyle’s sixty Sherlock Holmes stories, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” now the diva/detective protagonist of her own adventures. She just became the only woman to outwit Sherlock Holmes in the
New York Times
Notable Book of the Year,
Good Night, Mr. Holmes
SHERLOCK HOLMES
:
the London consulting detective with a global reputation for feats of deduction
PENELOPE “NELL” HUXLEIGH
:
the orphaned British parson’s daughter Irene rescued from poverty in London in 1881, a former governess and “typewriter girl” who lived with Irene and worked for Godfrey before the pair married, who now resides with them in Paris
JOHN H. WATSON, M.D.
:
Afghanistan war veteran, medical man and Sherlock Holmes’s sometimes roommate and frequent companion in crime-solving
GODFREY NORTON
:
the dashing British barrister Irene married just before they escaped to Paris to elude Holmes and the King of Bohemia
WILHELM GOTTSREICH SIGISMOND VON ORMSTEIN
:
the handsome, recently crowned King of Bohemia, who hired Sherlock Holmes to recover a photograph of Irene and the Prince together before she realized he meant her to be a mistress, not a consort. They cross swords again in
Another Scandal in Bohemia
(formerly
Irene’s Last Waltz)