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1) Chapel Noir
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Irene Adler adventures volume 5
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English
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Before Caleb Carr and Laurie R. King, Carole Nelson Douglas gave readers a compelling look into Victoriana with a bold new detective character: Irene Adler, the only woman to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes.
An operatic diva and the intellectual equal of most of the men she encounters, Irene is as much at home with disguises and a revolver as with high society and haute couture.
This time readers are thrust into one of the darkest periods of criminal...
2) Castle Rouge
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Irene Adler adventures volume 6
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English
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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)...
3) Femme Fatale
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Irene Adler adventures volume 7
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English
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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...
4) Spider Dance
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Irene Adler adventures volume 8
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English
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Opera singer. Adventuress. American abroad. Irene Adler is all of this...and is also the only woman to ever have outwitted the great man, Sherlock Holmes.
In Carole Nelson Douglas's novel Spider Dance, Irene has finally come home after numerous adventures, not out of loyalty to her native shores but because of a baffling puzzle, and the one thing that haunts her. Irene has no real memory of her childhood and has spent most of her life creating a...
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"November 9, 1938-Kristallnacht-the Nazis unleash a night of terror for Jews all across Germany. Meanwhile, the Japanese Imperial Army rampages through China and tightens its stranglehold on Shanghai, a city that becomes the last haven for thousands of desperate European Jews. Dr. Franz Adler, a renowned surgeon, is swept up in the wave of anti-Semitic violence and flees to Shanghai with his daughter. At a refugee hospital, Franz meets an enigmatic...
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Return to World War II Shanghai in Dan Kalla's thrilling historical novel Rising Sun, Falling Shadow, the sequel to The Far Side of the Sky
It's 1943 and the Japanese juggernaut has swallowed Shanghai and the rest of eastern China, snaring droves of American and British along with thousands of "stateless" German Jewish refugees. Despite the hostile environs, newlyweds Dr. Franz Adler and his wife, Sunny, adjust to life running the city's only hospital...
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Adler volume 2
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English
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After uniting some of the most famous heroines of the Victorian age including Jane Eyre, Miss Havisham and Marie Curie, Irene Adler must finally come face-to-face with Sherlock Holmes' greatest nemesis, Moriarty!
World Fantasy Award-winning writer Lavie Tidhar and TMNT artist Paul McCaffrey present an alternate history of the greatest literary characters of the 19th Century in the vein of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary...
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Adler volume 4
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English
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While Irene Adler and Jane Eyre settled into their new London lodgings, they received a visit from the deceased Professor Moriarty's right-hand man, Colonel Sebastian Moran. However, before he could impart any meaningful information regarding the intentions of Ayesha (She-who-must-be-obeyed), he was assassinated by Ayesha's vampiric henchwoman, Camilla.
Soon after Moran's demise, a courier sent by Madame Curie in Paris arrived carrying copies of...
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Adler volume 3
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English
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Irene Adler and her team of Victorian heroines encounter a mysterious villain, even more dangerous than Moriarty!
10) Adler
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Adler volume 1
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"For Sherlock, there was only ever one woman -- now Irene Adler is on a mission to take down Moriarty! It's the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time!" --
11) Asia
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This book is intended for Mature Audiences. If you don't enjoy steamy sex scenes, this isn't the book for you. Book Six in Avery Gale's new paranormal romance series is the perfect blend of both new and familiar faces. There's plenty of magic and the hysterical mayhem only Tobi West can bring. No good deed goes unpunished. When Asia Adler agrees to oversee the sale of the estate in Europe her new sister-in-law inherited, she never expected to find...
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"London 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She's no stranger to the glittering world of London's upper crust. At a ball thrown by her oldest friend, Lady Walter, she expects the scandal, gossip, and secrets. What she doesn't expect is the dead body in Lady Walter's garden. Lily overheard the man just minutes...
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Adler volume 1
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English
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Come along for the ride of your life, as Irene Adler teams up with Jane Eyre and a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time!
14) Finding Carson
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Best-Selling Author, Josh Soule brings a shocking and tragic legal thriller.
Sometimes bad things happen to good people.
Mark Adler had just finished a celebration dinner to mark the first day of his retirement as Detective Lieutenant with the Bay City Police Department. Adler looks forward to enjoying his retirement until he witnesses a city patrol officer assault a teenage girl. Wanting to do the right thing, Adler reports the incident, only to...
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London: June 1897. It's the day before Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and her son, the playboy Prince of Wales, arrives at 221B Baker Street pursued by anarchist assassins. The greatest chef in the world, Auguste Escoffier, also arrives, his career about to be shattered by blackmail and scandal. Can Holmes, Watson, and Irene Adler save the life of the heir to the British crown and the reputation of the master chef? This action-filled tale of royal...
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Regency widow Lily Adler must earn the trust of her father to help her solve the murder of an old family friend who had secrets worth killing for - and who had family with a lot to gain from his death.
London, 1815. Lily Adler is settling into her new London life when her semi-estranged father arrives unexpectedly, intending to stay with her while he recovers from an illness. Lily is drawn into spending time with Lady Wyatt, the new wife of an old...
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Regency widow Lily Adler is looking forward to spending the autumn away from the social whirl of London. When she arrives in Hampshire with her friends, the Carroways, she doesn't expect much more than a quiet country visit and the chance to spend time with her charming new acquaintance, Matthew Spencer. But something odd is afoot in the small country village. A ghost has taken up residence in the Belleford manor, a lady in grey who wanders the halls...
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Ein tödliches Sommerparadies.
"Die Insel war klein und karg, und die Buchten waren gefüllt mit rundgeschliffenen Steinen" - das Auftauchen einer eingemauerten Leiche bringt das Idyll der Insel Marstrand gehörig durcheinander. Als schließlich noch ein Taucher ermordet wird, ist die glänzende Oberfläche der Kurortgesellschaft endgültig zerstört.
Karin Adler von der Kripo Göteborg soll den Fall lösen - mit ihrem Charme und unkonventionellen...
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Hexenjagd im Sommerparadies.
Bei der Besichtigung der Festung Carlsten entdeckt eine Schulklasse ausgerechnet im angrenzenden Opferhain eine enthauptete Leiche im mittelalterlichen Gewand, und eine alte Dame muss feststellen, dass ein abgehackter Kopf ihren zauberhaften alten Klostergarten verschandelt. Laut Rechtsmedizin gehören Kopf und Körper jedoch gar nicht zusammen. Und auf Marstrand wimmelt es von seltsam gekleideten Menschen.
Karin Adler...
20) Das Totenhaus
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Ein Toter in einem Hotel - Marstrand hält den Atem an.
In Marstrands Turisthotell, einem leerstehenden Gebäude aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, wird ein Toter gefunden. Schnell ist Karin Adler von der Göteborger Polizei vor Ort und nimmt die Ermittlungen auf. Ist der alte Holger Erikson, die gute Seele von Marstrand, wirklich gewissen Investoren so sehr ein Dorn im Auge gewesen, dass sie ihn ermordet haben?
Je intensiver Karin Adler in diesem Mordfall...
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