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Castle Rouge: A Novel of Suspense featuring Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler, and Jack the Ripper - Hardcover

Douglas, Carole Nelson

 
9780312869410: Castle Rouge: A Novel of Suspense featuring Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler, and Jack the Ripper
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 031286941X ISBN 13: 9780312869410
Verlag: Forge Books, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

IRENE ADLER

Operatic diva. Femme fatale. Adventuress.

And one of the world's most intriguing detectives.

Before Caleb Carr, Anne Perry, and Laurie R. King, Carole Nelson Douglas gave readers a delightful look into Victoriana with one of the most impressive detective characters: Irene Adler, the only woman ever to have outwitted Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia." A charismatic performer and the intellectual equal (some would say superior) the men she encounters, Irene Adler is as much at home with a spyglass and revolver as with haute couture and gala balls.

And her adventures are the stuff of legend. She has faced down sinister spies, thwarted plots against nations, spurned a monarch and lived to reap a sweet revenge...and now is on the hunt for one of the true monsters of all time-Jack the Ripper. It was she who led a most unlikely group of allies through the cellars and catacombs of 1889 Paris in the search and capture of the suspect at a horrific secret-cult ceremony held beneath the city. But disaster has scattered those allies and the Ripper has again escaped, this time from the custody of the Paris police. Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, and Watson, to reinvestigate the Whitechapel murders of the previous fall from an entirely new angle.

Irene fears the Ripper will soon carve a bloody trail elsewhere and is eager to hunt this terror down. But terror has struck a little too close to home, for her own nearest and dearest are mysteriously missing--her companion/biographer, Nell Huxleigh, abducted in Paris and her barrister husband, Godfrey Norton, vanished in the wilds of Bohemia.

What should Irene do first? Search for Nell, Godfrey, or the Ripper? Though Irene has many highly placed friends, the Baron de Rothschild, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Prince of Wales can only offer money and good will.

For the actual pursuit, Irene must rely on an unreliable cohort, the American prostitute named Pink, who has proven to be someone with her own agenda, and Bram Stoker, the theatrical manager who was later to pen Dracula. The trail will lead back to Bohemia and on to new and bloodier atrocities before pursuers and prey reunite at a remote castle in Transylvania, where lthe Ripper is cornered and fully unveiled at last . . . a truly astounding yet chillingly logical answer to what the world has never known before:

Who was Jack the Ripper?

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Castle Rouge is the companion volume to Chapel Noir, chronicling Irene Adler's first Ripper case. The first book in Carole Nelson Douglas's Irene Adler series, Good Night, Mr. Holmes was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the year, as well as winning an American Mystery Award for Best Novel of Romantic Suspense and a Romantic Times Best Historical Romantic Mystery Award. In addition to the Irene Adler series, Carole Nelson Douglas is the author of the bestselling contemporary Midnight Louie mystery series. She resides in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Irene Adler (Chapel Noir), who seems to know everyone of importance, wants to help Sherlock Holmes reinvestigate the Jack the Ripper murders in London after a likely suspect escapes from the police. Her husband and her friend, Nell, have also disappeared, though, drawing Irene to Paris and grisly points beyond. For all collections.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

A direct sequel to Chapel Noir (2001), Douglas's exuberant sixth novel to feature the woman who bested Sherlock Holmes offers a novel theory as to the identity of Jack the Ripper that's sure to provoke controversy among those devoted to the study of the most notorious serial killer of all time. The Ripper's bloody killing spree has apparently spread throughout Europe and may be connected with bizarre, violent sexual rituals performed by mysterious cultists. Adler's husband, as well as her closest confidante, Nell Bly, have disappeared, and the story alternates among various perspectives: Dr. Watson's, Nell's and that of an unknown figure whose identity is revealed only at the end. Holmes and Adler pursue separate lines of inquiry, but are off-stage for much of the book, leaving the annoying Nell, a fainting, repressed damsel in distress, as the most dominant voice. The frequent changes in locale from England and France to Bohemia and Transylvania, with each country vividly portrayed, help to speed along the plot. Dracula fans will be pleased to find Bram Stoker playing a role. Clich‚s such as "filthy minions" and a shortage of meaningful detection may put off some readers, but those who relish lots of action, including chases and close calls, will feel amply rewarded. and other titles in her Midnight Louie mystery series.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Opera-diva-turned-detective Irene Adler, the only woman ever to have outsmarted Sherlock Holmes, returns in a thrilling new clifflhanger. After seeming to unmask the elusive Jack the Ripper in Chapel Noir (2001), Irene has no time to rest on her laurels. The recently escaped Ripper suspect has kidnapped her sidekick-biographer Nell Huxleigh, and her husband, Godfrey, has mysteriously disappeared in Eastern Europe. With the able assistance of theatrical manager Bram Stoker, Nell travels to Bohemia to track down the Ripper and liberate her loved ones. The tension escalates as Irene prepares to confront her nemesis in a remote Transylvanian castle. Douglas expertly mingles historical and fictional characters into another perilous adventure featuring plenty of intrigue and suspense. Margaret Flanagan
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Verlag
Forge Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
031286941X
ISBN 13 
9780312869410
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Anzahl der Seiten
544
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