Irene Adler is the only woman ever to have outwitted
Sherlock Holmes... and the one who has come closest to
stealing his heart.
She has competed (and sometimes cooperated) with the
famous fictional detective over six popular and acclaimed
novels, featuring her daring investigations across the
Continent. All along, the beautiful and brilliant American
diva-turned-detective has managed to conceal her
background and history, even from her dashing barrister
husband, Godfrey Norton, and her devoted companion and
biographer, English spinster Nell Huxleigh.
But she has had some help along the way to do this, from
such unlikely sources as the Baron de Rothschild, Sarah
Bernhardt, and Bram Stoker, as well as the soon-to-be-
infamous Nellie Bly, a daring American journalist who
helped Irene hunt Jack the Ripper. Now Nellie has wired
Irene some astounding news, news that will shake her
world: Irene's mother is the target of an assassin.
Irene's past is shrouded in secrecy, and at first she is
unwilling to divulge anything that would link her to
America. But a series of bizarre killings in New York City
draws her reluctantly back to her native country, where
she must race with a murderer to find her mother, a woman
of mystery who may turn out to be the most notorious woman
of the nineteenth century.
As Irene forges a trail into her own hidden past, Nellie
Bly draws another ace investigator across the Atlantic to
join in the hunt for a serial killer, the last man on
earth Irene Adler wants to discover anything about her
shocking past... Sherlock Holmes.
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