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Winner of the American Mystery Award for Best Novel of Romantic Suspense, and the Romantic Times Award for Best Historical Mystery
Miss Irene Adler, the beautiful American opera singer who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes, is also a superb detective, as Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker can attest. Even Holmes himself…
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2 authors picked Good Night, Mr. Holmes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The Irene Adler books mirror the Holmes-Watson relationship—brilliant detective, adoring documenter—centering Holmes’s famously successful adversary.
This story builds a much more interesting narrative into the original Adler story, changing the way we understand the stakes and the outcome, and then continues, lifting Irene Adler into a fascinating character in her own right.
From Malka's list on Sherlock Holmes retellings.
Last but not least is Good Night, Mr. Holmes, the first of the Irene Adler series by Carole Nelson Douglas. Irene Adler is 'the woman'—the only person to have ever outwitted Sherlock Holmes. Douglas takes the character first mentioned in Scandal in Bohemia and gives her a life and investigations of her own.
The tales are told from the perspective of Nell, a sheltered, orphaned pastor's daughter, who Irene takes under her wing. Solving crimes and uncovering plots, they run into Sherlock and Watson time and again as well as real historical personages like Bram Stoker.
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