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    A Soul of Steel: A Novel of Suspense featuring Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes

    By Carole Nelson Douglas

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    (Book 3, previously published without the Conan Doyle story as Irene at Large)

    "Irene Adler, the dashing heroine of two earlier adventures in Carole Nelson Douglas's enchanting Victorian series [returns]...plot ingenuity remains fresh and amusing, and...the action never loses its jaunty, high-heeled pace."—The New York Times

    When a savage-looking man in Oriental garb collapses at the feet of Miss Penelope Huxleigh, the spinster associate of diva/detective Irene Adler, at a Parisian sidewalk café, the perspicacious Adler quickly diagnoses his ailment as...poison. The recovering victim seeks to save the life of the man who tended his wounds at the disastrous battle of Maiwand in Afghanistan a decade earlier, one Dr. Watson.

    Irene Adler herself will soon battle assassin cobras to uncover an international scheme of treachery, death and deceit leading back to London and 221B Baker Street, that rivals any adventure of Sherlock Holmes himself.

    “The fast pace shifts from Afghanistan to Paris to London and finally to Sherlock Holmes himself...Irene is unconventional, irreverent, at least a century before her time—witty, competent, competitive, adventurous, and like Holmes himself fascinated with the curious and the criminal. The relationship between Irene and Penelope is both warm and charming. Irene's sharp and caustic wit is always softened by her obvious affection for her amanuensis.”—Charles Burns, Worcester MA News

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarole Nelson Douglas
    Release dateJan 14, 2013
    ISBN9781301954001
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    A Soul of Steel: A Novel of Suspense featuring Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes
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    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Carole Nelson Douglas, author of more than fifty fantasy and science fiction, mystery, mainstream, and romance novels, was an award-winning reporter and editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. After writing some bestselling high fantasy novels and SF thrillers, she imported fantasy notions into her Midnight Louie mystery series, which features a hard-boiled Las Vegas PI who’s a feline “Sam Spade with hairballs.” Her Irene Adler historical series made Carole the first author to use a woman from the Sherlock Holmes stories as a protagonist in the 1991 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Good Night, Mr. Holmes. She’s won or been short-listed for more than fifty writing awards in nonfiction, sf/fantasy, mystery, and romance genres, including several from the Romance Writers of America and Romantic Times BOOKreviews magazine, and the Cat Writers’ Association. In 2008, RT BOOKreviews magazine named Carole a “pioneer of the publishing industry. Carole and husband Sam Douglas, a former art museum exhibitions director and kaleidoscope designer, are kept as pets by five stray cats and a dog in Fort Worth, Texas. She collects vintage clothing, and does a mean Marilyn Monroe impersonation, and, yes, she does dance, but not with werewolves. As far as she knows.

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