Comments on: Irene Adler

By: Carole

Carole — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:50:30 +0000

As an ex-journalist myself, I was tickled to see this blog mention of my Irene Adler novels that include Nellie Bly: Chapel Noir, Castle Rouge, Femme Fatale and Spider Dance.

By: Undead Journalism: A Summer Book List | Bob Stepno's Other Journalism

Undead Journalism: A Summer Book List | Bob Stepno's Other Journalism — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:14:36 +0000

[...] the right as one of its book covers. Come to think of it, I lost a chunk of last summer to a trilogy-plus-one that featured Nellie Bly and Sherlock Holmes on a trail of bloody murders with echoes of Dracula and Jack the [...]

By: Barbara Taylor Sissel's Blog

Barbara Taylor Sissel's Blog — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:06:46 +0000

[...] for Tomorrow magazine before it went completely online, and maps and illustrations for Carole Douglas’ Irene Adler mystery series. (I met her and Algis Budrys, the Tomorrow editor, at SF conventions.) Those illustrations were [...]

By: Baker Street Babes: Episode 4 – The Women of Sherlock Holmes | Anglotopia - For People That Love Britain

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:00:25 +0000

[...] List of Excitement! Here’s the Irene Adler series; eight novels by Carole Nelson Douglas: http://carolenelsondouglas.com/book-series/irene-adler/ You all may be interested to know that there are also Victorian!Lestrade novels, by M. J. Trow [...]

By: Carole

Carole — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:50:32 +0000

Your blog post on Holmes-related books and the new Downey film interpretation is very interesting and I’m glad you mentioned my Irene Adler series. But the characterization you make of Irene as a “grifter and con-artist” (and also an attractive, duplicitous “minx”) comes from the recent Ritchie-Downey film, not Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and not me.

Doyle made Irene an opera singer, not a career one follows without years of hard study. And, in those days, opera performers wore many pounds of elaborate costuming and projected their voices in huge opera houses without benefit of microphones. They were artistic endurance athletes also. In my series, I showed the young Adler taking on private inquiry agent jobs to support her singing career, but she was never criminal. That did not fit the intense admiration Sherlock Holmes (and Doyle) showed for her in the first Holmes short story, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” which featured her. I enjoyed the Downey film, but, as friends point out, “that’s not YOUR Irene Adler,” a formidable woman of culture and integrity as well as cleverness and wit. It’ll be interesting to see what the BBC series “Sherlock,” does with the character; yet another interpretation, I’m sure.

Cheers,

Carole

By: The Holy Bee Recommends, #6: "Marry him, murder him, do what you like with him."* | Holy Bee of Ephesus

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:41:25 +0000

[...] Adler (the closest the asexual Holmes has come to a romantic interest), has been given her own series of novels by Carole Nelson Douglas. (I skimmed the Irene Adler novel Chapel Noir, which also deals with Jack the Ripper, and it seemed [...]

By: A Defense of Irene Adler: Part One | 2000irises

A Defense of Irene Adler: Part One | 2000irises — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:14:27 +0000

[...] get enough of her. Countless pastiches have expanded on her story – some rather creatively. (Notably, see Carole Nelson Douglas’s Irene Adler series. [...]

By: Carole

Carole — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:02:06 +0000

Well, here’s a bit of a blog that refers to the Irene Adler books.

By: Singing Along the Journey » Blog Archive » Guilty pleasures…

Singing Along the Journey » Blog Archive » Guilty pleasures… — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:17:25 +0000

[...] Nazi-era mysteries of Philip Kerr and Alan Furst ,and the Victorian-era novels of Laurie R. King, Carole Nelson Douglas and Anne Perry, when travelling to England or, well, if I just can't find a mystery that matches my [...]