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		Irene's posing as a man figures in each of the novels, and her plausibility in the role provides the opportunity for the books to speculate upon the extent to which role-definition is a matter of appearance rather than ability or inherent traits.
		The American-born Irene, as a performing artist, is already consigned to the fringes of conventional society; by taking on the role of investigator and self-consciously democratic free-thinker, she accentuates her disregard for European custom and convention, overtly asserting her challenge to the milieu in which she finds herself.
		The story of Irene Adler, the only woman ever to defeat Sherlock Holmes, appears in "A Scandal in Bohemia." Referred to ever after as "the woman" by Holmes, she is honored in one of the four Canonical Toasts specified by the constitution of the Baker Street Irregulars (Starrett 135).
	www.laurierking.com /erisman.php (3756 words)

	_styxandstones - Irene Adler - Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Irene's earliest memory included nothing but darkness with brief flashes of light, then landing, roughly, on what she assumed was cement.
		Irene was raised in a series of foster homes, quickly learning the English language and slowly losing her Austrian accent.
		Irene feels that there is a place for both ruthlessness and compassion, especially in the current state of the world; she is very pro mutant and has no qualms about furthering a pro mutant agenda, through any means necessary.
	www.greatestjournal.com /userinfo.bml?user=_styxandstones (1212 words)

	<FONT SIZE="7" COLOR="#0000B7">IRENE ADLER MYSTERIES</FONT>
		Irene, who trades bon mots with Oscar Wilde as adroitly as she foils Holmes, is a Victorian-age Ms.
		Irene Adler is not a woman for whom idleness holds the slightest appeal.
		Irene Adler, the beautiful and clever American opera singer who once out-witted the Master, Sherlock Holmes, is endowed with an unexpected and new talent: she is also an astute detective, one whose quick intellect rarely fails.
	cdouglas2.home.mindspring.com /irene.html (1729 words)

	Irene Adler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Irene Adler is a fictional character featured in the Sherlock Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in July, 1891.
		Adler retired in her late 20s from the operatic stage and moved to London.
		Irene Adler is also the adopted name of the beautiful heroine in the well known intellectual thriller The Club Dumas by Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irene_Adler (1426 words)

	Mark Baker - Roleplaying - Castle Falkenstein - Irene Adler
		Irene experiences some success in her musical career and goes off on a tour under the sponsorship of a composer named Dvorak.
		But Irene has always chafed under idle conditions and Paris, she says, "is pretty and urbane, but hardly a center of excitement." So when Charles Frederick Worth, the Parision King of Courture, invites Irene to become his "mannequin de ville," to wear the fabulous Worth creations to stimulate his trade, Irene leaps at the chance.
		For Irene, Nell and Godfrey are drawn into a series of events that will compel Irene to the one place that she daren't go--and to the one man she must not confront.
	www.lange.demon.co.uk /Castle_Falkenstein/Characters/lIrene_Adler.html (1181 words)

	Destiny (Irene Adler) - MarvelDatabase
		Irene first used her mutant powers sometime in the 1930's.
		Destiny's name Irene Adler is shared by another fictional character from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel A Study in Scarlet (1887) - Sherlock Holmes' first appearance.
		A different fictional character from Arturo Pérez Reverte's book El Club Dumas (1993) says that her name is Irene Adler, but she is trying to make a reference to Conan Doyle's novel and at the same time hiding her true identity.
	www.marveldatabase.com /wiki/index.php/Destiny_II (796 words)

	Nashville Scholars: WelcomeHolmes Member Showcase: IRA BLOCK
		The King of Bohemia, who cannot be described as her friend, calls her "the well-known adventuress", admits that she has foiled his attempts to steal a photograph from her, says she is "quick and resolute" with "a soul of steel" and finally exclaims, "Would she not have made an admirable queen?".
		A more likely explanation is that Holmes has realized that Irene Adler has discovered the true identity of the clergyman to whom she had just ministered, and wishes to hide her awareness from Watson.
		That is why, "when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of The Woman".
	www.nashvillescholars.net /members/trelawney.htm (1445 words)

	Irene Adler
		Irene Adler, the “well known adventuress,” has become an icon of feminine independence, style, and resourcefulness in the Victorian era.
		And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman.”
		Some have even suggested that Irene Adler and Aunt Clara may have something in common.
	www.ash-nyc.com /irene.htm (205 words)

	Irene at Large (An Irene Adler Mystery) - PowerBookSearch!
		In addition to the Irene Adler series, Carole Nelson Douglas is the author of the bestselling contemporary Midnight Louie mystery series.
		In a delightful encore, Victorian diva/detective Irene Adler Norton (last encountered in Good Morning, Irene) engages in a battle of wits with Sherlock Holmes and a vicious killer seeking to hide a traitorous past.
		The savage-looking stranger who collapses on a Paris street in front of Irene and her friend, narrator Nell Huxleigh, is identified as Quentin Stanhope, a young officer whom Nell had once known.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0812517024.html (1193 words)

	Review of Irene's last Waltz, by Carole Nelson Douglas
		Irene is being fitted for a new dress at the House of Worth, dressmaker to the royal houses of Europe.
		Irene’s promises are not to be taken lightly.
		Irene’s promise to Clotilde and her husband’s career are destined to act in concert.
	www.sherlockiana.net /books/rev/irene.html (628 words)

	Amazon.fr : Irene at Large: Livres en anglais: Carole Nelson Douglas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Holmes; Good Morning, Irene) finally seems to be getting the hang of weaving a new mystery together with strands of Holmesiana that include the background of Col. Sebastian Moran and the location of Dr. Watson's migrating war wound.
		After a prologue darkly hinting treachery in the 1880 Afghanistan campaign, Irene and her confidante Nell Huxleigh, still living in exile in Paris, stumble on, and tend to, a poisoned stranger who turns out to be Quentin Stanhope, an old acquaintance of both Nell's and Watson's.
		Though the details about romance and ladies' garb are as arch as ever, the hindsighted period cameos and tangential intrigues are mercifully kept in abeyance as Holmes and Irene do their most charming (if, in Holmes's case, unwitting) work together.
	www.amazon.fr /Irene-Large-Carole-Nelson-Douglas/dp/0812517024 (590 words)

	The Diogenes Club: A Few Words about Theatres in Warsaw or Where Sang Irene Adler
		Holmes' index, between that of a Hebrew Rabbi and that of a staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea fishes, there is a concise biography of Irene Adler.
		Then, knowing that that was the only operatic stage in Warsaw, we suggest that if Irene Adler had ever played in Warsaw, she played in The Warsaw Governmental Theatre.
		In this essay we have tried to prove that Irene Adler might have played in Warsaw and that the only problem was the name of the theatre.
	www.diogenes-club.com /irene.htm (790 words)

	Books.MusicaBona.Com \| Douglas Carole Nelson: Castle Rouge
		"Irene Adler is a swashbuckling heroine who smokes cigars, carries a pistol and disguises herself in men's clothing...
		Irene Adler is the only woman ever to have outwitted Sherlock Holmes in A Scandal in Bohemia; she is as much at home with a spyglass and revolver than with haute couture and gala balls.
		Her adventures are the stuff of legend, for she has faced down sinister spies, thwarted plots against nations, and led an unlikely group, including the bachelor of Baker Street and his faithful cohort Watson, through the cellars and catacombs of 1889 Paris to capture Jack the Ripper.
	books.musicabona.com /item/0765345714.html (282 words)

	Mystique - MarvelDatabase
		Irene and Raven advised Shadowcat and Logan against proceeding in their contemplated assassination of Adolf Hitler and other prominent leaders and officials of the Nazi party.
		Raven was uncertain of Irene's motivation, but apparently trusted her enough not to press for answers.
		Irene's children were now adults with their own children, one of which was a mutant.
	www.marveldatabase.com /wiki/index.php/Mystique (5760 words)

	Whyever Irene? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		She is primarily famous as the ursurper of the throne that was to have been her son's (she first reigned as Regent and evidently decided to stay on when he came of age), and secondarily known for her efforts to restore the worship of icons, for which the Eastern Orthodox Church elevated her to sainthood.
		The recovery of a compromising photograph (of Irene and the King), of course.
		when [Holmes] speaks of Irene Adler, or** when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman." In fine, that photograph has become the photograph and holds a position in Holmes' mind as an icon.
	members.aol.com /MFrankland/whyIrene.htm (573 words)

	::Strand Magazine::
		Irene Adler is the beautiful opera singer who bested the best detective in the world, the only woman to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes.
		Because now Irene and her allies--and enemies--must race to follow a deadly trail of hidden personal and political history back in time to the days of the California gold rush, thirty years earlier.
		They are pursuing the complex and contradictory life story of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century, and before the intrigue-ridden quest is over, Irene and Nell will uncover murderous international political conspiracies, lost treasure, and finally...
	www.strandmag.com /sherlock_books.htm (459 words)

	Sherlockian.Net: The View Halloa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory - to us, she is always "the woman!"
		Was Irene anything more to Sherlock Holmes than a valuable lesson in the perils of underestimating an opponent - a living, breathing "Norbury," whose picture he kept in a handy place for those times when he felt that his swelling ego needed an ice-pack?
		Irene Adler had been warned that Holmes would be called in.
	www.sherlockian.net /canon/halloa/scan.html (628 words)

	Amazon.com: Femme Fatale: An Irene Adler Novel (Irene Adler): Books: Carole Nelson Douglas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although Irene Adler appeared in only one of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories ("A Scandal in Bohemia"), this beautiful, intelligent and mysterious character, a Victorian woman well ahead of her time, has taken on a vivid new life in seven novels by the prolific Douglas (Good Night, Mr.
		Irene Adler, the only woman ever to have outsmarted Sherlock Holmes, returns in another carefully constructed caper featuring a delightful array of well-known historical and fictional characters.
		In subsequent novels Irene and Nell, joined by Irene's husband Godfrey, crisscross Europe from London to Transylvania, and Paris to Monaco, solving mysteries involving queens and courtesans, Jack the Ripper and the Golem of Prague.
	www.amazon.com /Femme-Fatale-Irene-Adler-Novel/dp/0765345943 (1804 words)

	Sherlock Holmes in The Royal Scandal: Reviewed
		Miss Adler is flmailing the Crown Prince who is scheduled to marry the Princess of Scandinavia.
		Adler, who is now fearful, flees and Holmes and Watson move forward to try and locate the photo and uncover the mystery of the Royal Scandal...
		He is still mugging shamelessly and exuding an annoyingly smug air, but in the flashback sequences to Holmes first encounter with Adler and in the quieter moments with Mycroft, he comes off much better than in any of the previous films.
	www.bakerstreetdozen.com /royscanrev.html (974 words)

	A Scandal in Bohemia
		Was Irene Adler within her legal or moral rights to threaten the King?
		Irene Norton, née Adler: beautiful; talented; clever; determined; courageous, "with a figure a man might die for;" who first fooled and then foiled the great Sherlock Holmes, who even then was gaining an international reputation as the person to see about delicate interpersonal and international problems.
		Was Irene's assurance -- the word of an "adventuress" -- "inviolate?" Might it not have better for Irene to have left the incriminating photograph for Holmes to recover, thereby removing all reason for the King to continue his pursuit?
	www.bcpl.net /~lmoskowi/hounds/intro/SCAN.HTM (972 words)

	The Williamsburg Regional Library \| Web Links
		Most of these recreations have Holmes and Watson as the main characters, but some authors have chosen minor characters from the original tales to be their protagonists.
		Irene Adler, the only woman to have ever bested Holmes, Edward Porter Jones, a former Baker Street Irregular, and even Holmes' housekeeper, Mrs.
		The main character is Irene Adler, singer, actress, and adventurer, and the only woman to outwit Holmes (see Conan Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia").
	www.wrl.org /bookweb/booklists/holmes.html (1547 words)

	Holmes fans: Is Hillary more like Irene Adler or Professor Moriarty? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		IIRC, Holmes said that Irene Adler was the only woman he could ever have loved.
		Irene Adler was an admirable opponent, beautiful, intelligent, and competent; Moriarty was an evil genius and a supreme manipulator.
		Irene Adler was a brilliant free-spirited woman who matched wits with Holmes and won, evoking his undying admiration.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1215714/posts (1728 words)

	The Royal Scandal
		The woman is Irene Adler, a renowned beauty, opera star - and master criminal.
		The story begins when the Crown Prince of Bohemia, who is to become the future Kaiser of the German Empire, hires Holmes to retrieve acutely embarrassing photographs covertly taken of him and Adler in her boudoir.
		Holmes believes that if Adler is involved, the case is darker, deadlier and much more mysterious.
	www.bakerstreetdozen.com /royscan.html (901 words)

	Sherlock Holmes - Vampire Trilogy
		Although she was almost ten years younger than Irene Adler, Mina Harker could still be considered a contemporary of Holmes.
		She could take shorthand, and type at such a remarkable speed that typing dictation from a phonograph record was no great effort to her (and this was long before electric typewriters, mind you).
		Although Irene showed an impressive cleverness in dealing with Sherlock Holmes, her style of thought is still that strange mixture of intuition and stored hearsay that is stereotypically regarded as female thinking.
	www.sherlockpeoria.net /WeirdSherlock/DraculaTrilogy.html (2432 words)

	The Official Website of Jan Burke
		The next one was going to be Season of the Witch, and for a time, Dear Irene, was known in this household as Fall From Olympus.
		First, there was another series out with the name Irene in the titles--a series by Carole Nelson Douglas, featuring Irene Adler of Sherlock Holmes fame.
		Frank and Irene have met about twelve years before the beginning of the first book, Goodnight, Irene.
	www.janburke.com /rabbit_faq.html (1571 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002026057 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		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.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol031/2002026057.html (381 words)

	Amazon.com: Irene At Large (Irene Adler): Books: Carole Nelson Douglas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Douglas shows us a 21st Century woman in Irene Adler, a woman truly with A Soul of Steel (as this novel will be retitled in its December 2005 release,) a woman Doyle could never have written.
		Irene At Large is the third in a series of mystery novels based on the career of Irene Adler Norton, a character from one of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
		The adventures of Irene Adler loop in and around the known timeline of Sherlock's exploits, and the few tantalizing glimpses we have of the Great Detective keep him very definitely in character, unlike many ham-handed attempts by other authors.
	www.amazon.com /Irene-At-Large-Adler/dp/0812517024 (2041 words)

	Mark Baker - Roleplaying - Castle Falkenstein - Irene Adler
		Born into a Jewish family in New Jersey in 1858, Irene Adler had a fine contralto voice and became the prima donna at the Imperial Opera of Warsaw.
		His father, Tsar Alexander III, was a giant of a man, over 6'5" high and strong enough to hold up the roof of a train during a railway accident, which fits with the descriptions in Watson's Journal and Conan-Doyle's account.
		It is likely that Holmes first met Irene Adler in Odessa in 1887, the year before he was retained by the 'King of Bohemia', while involved in the Trepoff case.
	www.lange.demon.co.uk /Castle_Falkenstein/Characters/Irene_Adler.html (339 words)

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