Another Scandal in Bohemia
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Authors: Carole Nelson Douglas
Tags: #Traditional British, #General, #Historical, #Women Sleuths, #irene adler, #Mystery & Detective, #sherlock holmes, #Fiction
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Praise for ANOTHER SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA
“Gothic atmosphere and political intrigue abound... Like a master seamstress herself, Douglas threads these elements—and the flashing exchanges between Holmes and Norton... into a credible and finely crafted whole.”—
Publishers Weekly
“The
woman is back! Douglas has created an enduring treasure for connoisseurs of fine fiction. A joy to read and savor, this latest Adler triumph will be greeted with one well-deserved huzzah after another.”
—RT Book Reviews
“Lovers of mystery and adventure alike will enjoy this delightful spin across Eastern Europe, and newcomers to the Irene Adler Camp will scurry to bookstores, seeking copies of the other Adler Adventures.”
—The Dallas Morning News
“Here is Sherlock Holmes in skirts, but as a detective with an artistic temperament and the passion to match, with the intellect to penetrate to the heart of a crime and the heart to show compassion for the intellect behind it.”
—Mystery Scene
“A tale of adventure that would challenge Indiana Jones’s most fantastic feats.”
—Roanoke Times & World News
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
ANOTHER SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA
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,
Irene’s Last Waltz
, was changed because another publisher started using confusingly similar titles to mine.
Another Scandal in Bohemia
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. 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
A Soul of Steel
Copyright 1992, formerly published as Irene’s Last Waltz
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 my husband Sam,
the wind beneath my wings
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, beginning with 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 “type-writer girl” who lived with Irene and worked for Godfrey before the pair were married, and who now resides with them in Paris
GODFREY NORTON
:
the British barrister who married Irene just before they escaped to Paris to elude Holmes and the King of Bohemia
JOHN H. WATSON, M.D.
:
British medical man and
Afghanistan war veteran of the Battle of Maiwand; Sherlock Holmes’s sometimes roommate and frequent companion in crime-solving
EMERSON QUENTIN STANHOPE:
The dashing young uncle of Nell’s first charges as a governess, sent to war in Afghanistan and encountered again in Paris as a mysterious figure
.
WILHELM GOTTSREICH SIGISMOND VON ORMSTEIN:
the recently crowned King of Bohemia.
He
courted Irene once, then feared this might disrupt his forthcoming royal marriage. He hired Sherlock Holmes to recover a photograph of Irene and the Prince together, but she escaped them both, promising never to use the photo against the King.
BRAM STOKER
:
theatrical manager for England’s finest actor, Henry Irving; a writer of sensational stories, who will later pen the classic
Dracula
INSPECTOR FRANÇOIS LE VILLARD:
a Paris detective and admirer of the English detective who has translated Holmes’s monographs into French.
SARAH BERNHARDT
:
Internationally famed French actress
