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The classic first adventure of Mrs. Irene Adler--the beautiful American opera singer who is the only person to have ever bested Sherlock Holmes--is back in print. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year.
Winner of the American Mystery Award for Best Novel of Romantic Suspense, and the Romantic Times Award for Best Historical MysteryMiss 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 must admit--albeit grudgingly--that she acquits herself competently.But in matters of the heart she encounters difficulty. The Crown Prince of Bohemia--tall, blonde, and handsome--proves to be a cad. Will dashing barrister Godfrey Norton be able to convince Irene that not all handsome men are cut from the same broadcloth?Guy Ritchie is directing

An anthology of the femme fatale motif through the nineteenth into the early twentieth century. The dangerous woman as viewed through the lens of the Victorian age. The motif wanders through several genres, sensation, mystery, horror ans ghost stories, with the essential quality that they hinge on a femme fatale, the fatal woman. From Wilkie Collins' cook to Arthur Machen's Goddess, deadly
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