She was the only woman in Sherlock Holmes’s life. Only she managed to defeat the great detective and melt his icy heart. Their relationship can’t simply be called “love”—it was something more: Irene Adler cast a spell on Holmes once and for all. And while their personal life is shrouded in fog, like the streets of Victorian London, this book reveals the mystery of Sherlock Holmes’s only love.
Mysterious murders and sinister intrigues, the kidnapping of secret documents and deadly perilous chases through the labyrinths of London’s slums, séances and mansions crawling with ghosts—this novel ought to be called “a Victorian detective story in the best traditions of the genre,” if Irene Adler hadn’t proven that against a woman’s intuition and “female logic,” even Sherlock Holmes’s “deductive method” can sometimes be powerless!
Previously published under the title “Death on the Double. Save Sherlock Holmes!”