Good
Night, Mr. Holmes (1990)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Irene Adler
adventure / Canonical re-visioning, narrated in part
by Watson
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Irene Adler; Elderly Woman at Briony Lodge
(Penelope Huxleigh); Jefferson Hope; Mrs Hudson;
Godfrey Norton; King of Bohemia; John, the Coachman;
(Mycroft Holmes; Clotilde Lothman von
Saxe-Meningen; St. Monica's Clergyman)
Historical Figures: Charles Lewis Tiffany;
Florence Stoker; Bram Stoker; James McNeill
Whistler; Oscar Wilde; Lillie Langtry; Antonín
Dvorák; Constance Wilde; (Marie Antoinette;
Louis Comfort Tiffany; Henry Littleton)
Other Characters: The Turnpenny Daughters;
Emerson Stanhope; Nell's Landlady; Street Arab;
Teashop Girl; Chestnut Vendor; Liz Cheake;
Whiteley's Clerk; Floorwalker; Female Supervisor;
Lady Thief; Commercial Traveller; Mr Minucci;
Stoker's Cook; Amy; Stoker's Guests; Pinkerton
Agent; Sofia Minucci; Sycamores Gatekeeper;
Sycamores Doorman; Mr. Edgewaithe; Mr Beaverholt;
Victoria Cabman; Singers; Pianist; Littleton's
Guests; Jezebel Mutterworth; Carriage Driver;
Mutterworth's Housekeeper; Maid; Gardeners; Man on
Prague Station; Opera Singers; Ludmilla; Royal
Servants; The Queen of Bohemia; Grand Duchess
Hortense; Prince Bertrand; King's Doctors ("Sturm
& Drang"); Doctors' Housekeeper; Coachman;
Vioinist; Conductor; Bass Player; Gypsy Fortune
Teller; Kurt; King's Chambermaid; Irene's Maid;
Dresden Carriage Driver; Cologne Ticketmaster;
Baggage Man; Porter; Brussels Telegraph Operator;
King's Agents; Witness at Trial; Temple Singer; John
Jewett; Mrs Seaton; Wilde's Guests; Briony Lodge
Maid; Cabman; (Jean Claude Renard; Zellerstein;
The Younger Zellerstein; John Chapple "Black Jack"
Norton; Sarah Jane; La Calvetari; Cavendish
Mutterworth; Petronella Anckvicz; The King of
Bohemia (Wilhelm's father); Photographer; Irene's
Friend in Paris; Carpenters)
Date: June 1894 / Spring, 1881 - 1888
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Berkeley
Square; The Turnpenny Residence; Whiteley's
Emporium; A Teashop; Hope's Cab; Saffron Hill;
Eversholt Street; Irene's Rooms; Trafalgar Square;
Morley's Hotel; 27, Cheyne Walk; A Chemist's in The
Strand; The Temple; No. 17, Inner Temple; The
Sycamores, Croydon; Victoria Station; Victoria
Mansions; Hammersmith; Poland; Warsaw; Bohemia;
Prague; Railway Station; National Theatre; Royal
Castle; The Powder Tower; The Joseph Quarter; A
Train; Germany; Dresden; Nuremberg; Cologne;
Station; Hotel; Belgium; Brussels; Chelsea Rooming
House; Royal Courts of Justice; Fleet Street; The
Temple Church; St. John's Wood; Serpentine Avenue;
Briony Lodge; 16, Tite Street; Chelsea; France;
Neuilly; (Whitechapel; Paris)
Story: Holmes and Watson reminisce over the
Adler case. After her employer returns to India,
Penelope Huxleigh finds herself unemployed and
homeless in London, and is rescued from a
bag-snatcher by Irene Adler, who invites her home.
Their cabby collapses and, after they aid him, tells
them his name, Jefferson Hope, and his reason for
being in London, and gives Irene Lucy's ring. She
takes Nell to Whiteley's Emporium to exact revenge
on the girl who was responsible for Nell's
dismissal.
Tiffany
hires Holmes to find Marie Antoinette's lost Zone of
Diamonds, and later approaches Irene with the same
task. Nell finds herself serving tea at a party
given by Florence Stoker, and finds work as a
typewritist. Wilde asks Irene to retrieve a gold
cross from Florence Stoker. Holmes learns that the
Zone's last known owner, Black Jack Norton, has
disappeared, and Irene's own investigations into the
man bring her into conflict with Godfrey Norton, and
Nell finds herself working for him. He points her
towards his father, but she and Irene arrive at the
sanitorium to find that he has died, and as they are
leaving they encounter Holmes entering. They uncover
a treasure chest, but its contents are not what
Irene expects.
In October,
1885, an encounter with Dvorák takes Irene to Milan,
while Nell helps Godfrey investigate a vengeful will
and inherits a foul-mouthed parrot. Irene moves on
to Warsaw where she meets the Crown Prince of
Bohemia, and is persuaded by him to move on to
Prague. In the spring of 1887, Nell receives a brief
note, summoning her to Prague. There she learns that
the Crown Prince has had Irene photographed wearing
the Crown Jewels, and that the King is being
poisoned. When the King dies, Irene investigates his
death, but realises she will never become Queen and
finds herself dismissed from the opera. She and Nell
flee Prague with the King's agents in pursuit. In
London they are assisted by Norton in locating the
Zone of Diamonds and evading the pursuit of the King
and Sherlock Holmes.
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Good
Morning, Irene (1991)
Published in a revised edition as The
Adventuress
Story Type: Extra-canonical Irene Adler
adventure narrated in part by Watson
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr
Watson; Irene Adler; Elderly Woman at Briony Lodge
(Penelope Huxleigh); Godfrey Norton; François le
Villard; Mme (Honoria) Montpensier; (Mary
Morstan)
Historical Figures: Florence Stoker; Noel
Stoker; Bram Stoker; Dr Thornley Stoker; Alice
Heine; Albert I of Monaco; (Charles III of
Monaco)
Other Characters: André; Sophie; Fishermen;
Paddy; Stoker's Servant; Grimes; Morgue-keepers;
Drunkards; Concierge; Louise Montpensier; Pierre;
Edouard Montpensier; Train Attendant; Gravesend
Gerry; Singh; Hotel de Paris Waiter; Heine's
Houseman; Maid; Emile Hoffman; Caleb Winter; Dr
Jarnac; Bird-Feeding Woman; Hotel de Paris Manager;
Viscount D'Enrique; Café de Mouettes Waiter;
Shipwreck Survivors; Claude Montpensier; Hotel de
Paris Maid; Heine's Maid; Palace Footman; Jacques;
Hotel de Paris Porter; Fencing Class Women;
Beatrice; Priest; Signor Genturini; D'Enriques's
Second; Jules Rousseau; Heine's Butler; Housemen; (Marianne
Montpensier; Ticket Collector; Lascar; Sailors;
Hippolyte Cremieux)
Date: August, 1888 - / 1882
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Neuilly;
Paris; The Left Bank; 27, Cheyne Walk; Ile de la
Cité; The Paris Morgue; L'Oiseau Blanc; Montpensier
House; Boulevard Péreire; Bernhardt's House; A
Train; Marseilles; Hotel; Gare Saint Charles;
Monaco; Monte Carlo; Hotel de Paris; Heine's Villa;
The Palace; Holmes's Paris Hotel; Jarnac's Cottage;
Casino; Eze; Le Café de Mouettes; Telegram Office;
The Ritz; Heine's Villa
Story: Watson is worried about Holmes's use
of cocaine. Irene is living in France after her
"death" and has befriended Sarah Bernhardt. In
Paris, she and Nell see a corpse being pulled from
the river. Irene is reminded of a similar corpse
pulled from the Thames by Bram Stoker some years
previously, and a visit to the morgue confirms the
connection. Godfrey rescues the reluctant Louise
Montpensier from the Seine. She has a tattoo similar
to the other two victims. When she disappears two
days later, Le Villard accuses her aunt of murder.
Irene learns the truth and burgles the Montpensier
household. She decides to travel to Monte Carlo,
armed with society introductions from Bernhardt, to
investigate Louise's father's past. Holmes travels
to France to assist Le Villard in the Montpensier
investigation.
On the
train to Monte Carlo, Irene and her companions
encounter other parties interested in Louise. In
Monaco they learn that Alice Heine is being
blackmailed by the same people who are involved in
the Montpensier affair. When Louise's uncle arrives
in Monte Carlo, Nell is sent with Louise to the
village of Eze. While Irene is singing for the
Prince, one of the conspirators is killed and
Godfrey, in disguise, disappears. Later they hear
the story of the shipwreck, a golden Minotaur, and
the chain of events which have led to the present
situation, and realise the importance of the
Prince's upcoming oceanographic expedition to the
plot. Holmes also follows the trail to Monte Carlo,
and Irene and Nell join a fencing class. A wedding,
a one-armed man, the arrival of Sarah Bernhardt, a
duel, a treasure map and an encounter between Holmes
and Bernhardt lead to the final denouement.
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Irene at
Large (1992)
Published in a revised edition as A Soul of
Steel (2003)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Irene Adler
adventure, narrated in part by Watson
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Elderly
Woman at Briony Lodge (Penelope Huxleigh); Colonel
Moran; Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes; Godfrey Norton;
Mary Morstan; Percy 'Tadpole' Phelps; Annie
Harrison; Joseph Harrison; Inspector Forbes; Lord
Holdhurst; Mrs. Hudson; Watson's Maid; (Dubuque;
François Le Villard; Murray; Mrs. Tangey; Mycroft
Holmes)
Historical Figures: Brigadier General George
Burrows; General Nuttall; Major George Frederick
Blackwood; Lt. Newton Plomer Fowell; Lieutenant
Hector Maclaine; Sir Edward Leach; Sarah Bernhardt;
Maurice Bernhardt; Toulouse-Lautrec; Empress Maria
Feodorovna
Other Characters: Cobra; Tiger; British
Soldiers; Ayub Khan's Forces; Messenger; Scout;
Officer; Indian Soldiers; Afghan Villagers; Casanova
the Parrot; Quentin Stanhope; Passersby; Fruit
Vendor; Sable; Waiter; Sophie; Dr. Mersenné; Lucifer
the Cat; André; Street Vendor; Theatre Audience;
Bernhardt's Admirers; Montmartre Crowds; Coachman;
Artists; Urchin; Maid; Dalip; Bernhardt's
Manservant; Bernhardt's Guests; Captain Morgan;
Turbaned Servants; Russian Officer; Dr. Sauveur;
Carriage Driver; Hotel Clerk; Manservant; Cabman;
Boy at 221B; ABC Serving Girl; Veiled Lady; Watson's
Hansom Driver; Cab Driver; Waterston's Butler;
Allegra Turnpenny; Mrs. Waterston; Mrs. Codwell
Turnpenny; Mrs. Compton; Flower Girl; Covent Garden
Crowds; Dowager; Fusiliers Doorman; Fusiliers Club
Member; Beggars; Old Soldier; Hunchbacked Scholar;
Museum Visitors; Museum Policeman; Four-Wheeler
Driver; Fortnum & Mason's Clerk; Porters; Mrs.
Bracken; Little Girl; Mrs. Fotheringay Stanhope;
Quentin's Family; Nurse; Fruit Vendor; (Afghan
Guards; Captured Sepoys)
Date: July 25-27, 1880; June 1889
Locations: Afghanistan; Near Sangbur;
Khushk-i-Nakhud; Maiwand; 221B, Baker Street;
France; Neuilly; Paris; A Café; Notre Dame
Precincts; The Louvre; The Latin Quarter;
Restaurant; Porte Saint Martin Theatre; Montmartre;
Rue Péreire; Bernhardt's House; Cross-Channel Ferry;
London; Mayfair; Brown's Hotel; Madame Tussaud's;
Watson's Paddington House; Woking; Briarbrae; Baker
Street; ABC Tearoom; A Cab; Grosvenor Square; Mrs.
Waterston's House; Paddington; Covent Garden;
Frontier Fusiliers Club; ABC Tea Shop; Kensington;
Holy Trinity Church; Museum of Natural History; A
Four-Wheeler; Piccadilly; Fortnum & Mason's;
Houndsditch; Quentin's Rooms; The Strand; A Private
Hotel; A Train; Paddington Chemists; Simpson's; A
Four-wheeler; Moran's Hansom; Hyde Park; Hammersmith
Bridge; (Diogenes Club; The Foreign Office)
Story: Shortly before the battle of Maiwand,
Tiger tells Cobra of a traitor in the British ranks.
Nine years later, Holmes deduces that Watson is
thinking about Maiwand. An Oriental beggar
recognises Nell in Paris and, after he collapses,
Irene insists on taking him back to their cottage,
where she discovers that he has been poisoned. Nell
eventually recognises the man as Stanhope, the uncle
of a former charge. He reveals that he is searching
for the man who saved his life in Maiwand (where he
was known as 'Cobra'), whose own life he now
believes to be in danger. The following day he is
shot at with an air rifle, after which he tells them
of Tiger's treachery and that the man he is looking
for is named Watson. When he disappears, Irene, Nell
and Godfrey set out in search of him, encountering
Bernhardt and Lautrec on the quest, and Irene and
Nell are attacked by a cobra in Quentin's rooms,
where they also find a dead man.
At a soirée
given by Bernhardt they encounter the hunter,
Morgan, and the Czarina, Maria Feodorovna. Irene
sends Nell and Godfrey to England to find Quentin
and Watson. In England, Holmes and Watson are
engaged in the search for the Naval Treaty. Nell and
Godfrey keep watch in Baker Street and visit
Quentin's sisters. In Watson's study they discover
another cobra. Nell receives a message summoning her
to the Natural History Museum to meet Quentin, and
is shot at, but reunited with both Quentin and
Irene. Quentin reveals the reason behind Morgan's
pursuit of Watson. Irene believes that their case
may be connected to Holmes's. Irene discovers
Morgan's true identity and decides that only Holmes
can bring him to justice. Quentin finally confronts
Tiger on the parapet of Hammersmith Bridge.
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"Parris
Green" (1993)
Included in: First Cases Volume 2 (Robert J.
Randisi)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Irene Adler
adventure
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Elderly
Woman at Briony Lodge (Penelope Huxleigh)
Historical Figures: Oscar Wilde
Other Characters: Lysander Parris; Mrs.
McCorkle; Amelia Parris; Lawrence Parris; Phoebe
Miller
Date: November, 1886
Locations: London: Saffron Hill; A
Four-Wheeler; Cheyne Place; an art gallery near the
British Museum
Story: Wilde consults Irene about the artist
Lysander Parris, who, he says, has gone mad. They
travel to the artist's studio in Cheyne Place, where
Parris has locked himself in with his latest model
who, the view through the keyhole shows, appears to be
dead. After examining the artist's works, and
commenting on his use of colours, and interviewing his
wife and son, Irene is told by his servant that Parris
was having an affair with Miller, his model, and that
a kitten adopted by Miller has recently died. Irene,
however, seems to be showing an excessive interest in
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Irene's
Last Waltz (1994)
Published in a revised edition as Another
Scandal in Bohemia
Story Type: Extra-canonical Irene Adler
adventure
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Elderly
Woman at Briony Lodge (Penelope 'Nell' Huxleigh);
Godfrey Norton; Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen;
King of Bohemia; Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; (Colonel
Moran; King of Scandinavia; Mary Morstan; Mycroft
Holmes)
Folkloric Characters: (The Golem)
Historical Figures: Charles Frederick Worth;
Marie Worth; Baron Alphonse Rothschild; Rasputin;
Antonin Dvorak; (Sarah Bernhardt; Alice Heine;
Albert I of Monaco; Princess von Metternich;
Pinkerton Detective Agency; Charles Lewis Tiffany;
Oscar Wilde; Maria Feodorovna; Jack the Ripper;
Rabbi Loew; Rudolph II)
Other Characters: André; Worth's Page Boy;
Worth's Models; Worth's Shop Assistants; Worth's
Clients; Worth Mannequin; Worth Vendeuse; Serafina;
Gossips; Worth's Sewing & Bead Girls; Berthe
Brascasat; Genevieve Pascal; Rothschild's Butler;
Rothschild's Housekeeper; Rothschild's Maids;
Manservant; Durfort; Marbeau; Madame Gallatin; Man
with Blue-tinted Glasses; German Hotel Concierge;
Fleku Customers; Waiters; Female Rothschild Agent;
Mr Werner; Royal Footmen; Royal Guests; Royal
Steward; Allegra Stanhope; Tatyana / Sable; Carriage
Driver; Messenger; Belgrade Doormen; Belgrade
Concierge; Tatyana's Maid; Europa Majordomo; Europa
Maid; White-bearded Man; Tatyana's Bodyguards;
Conductor; German Guard; Carriage Driver; Rudolf;
Duel Crowd; Doctors Sturm & Drang; Gypsy Fortune
Teller; Flower Deliveryman; Orchestra; Stagehands;
Performers; Stage Man; Quentin Stanhope; Sophie; (Nathalie
(cook); King of Bohemia's Father; Nathalie
(bead-girl); Broderick; Duchess Hortense; Jaspar
Higgenbottom; Moravian Count; Nell's Father;
Lizzie Cheek; Maid; Captain of the Guard;
Allegra's Aunt & Cousin)
Date: September-October, 1889
Locations: France; Irene's Home in Neuilly;
Paris; Rue de la Paix; Worth's; Ferrires; Gare du
Nord; A Train; Germany; Cologne; Restaurant; Hotel;
Bohemia; Prague; Europa Hotel; U Fleku Tavern; The
Josef Quarter; 221B, Baker Street; Bank of Bohemia;
Prague Castle; Hotel Belgrade; Holmes's Paris Hotel;
Karlova Street; Jewish Cemetery; Catacombs;
Vrchlickeho Park; National Theatre; Franz Josef
Station; A Train
Story: Having received a parcel of Liberty
gowns, Irene also receives a letter notifying her of
an appointment for a personal fitting at Worth's,
where she faces down a group of gossips and is
summoned before the Queen of Bohemia, who tells her
that the King has not consummated their marriage,
and asks her help in finding out the problem. When
Irene returns to Worth's some days later, she learns
that a bead-girl has been murdered there.
She and
Nell return home to find that they, and Godfrey,
have been summoned by Baron Rothschild, who asks
them to investigate rumours that the Golem has
returned to Prague. While they prepare for
departure, Nell is installed in the workrooms at
Maison Worth, but is dismissed before she can learn
anything. She travels to Bohemia as Godfrey's
secretary, while Irene is to follow after,
accompanied by Nell's former charge, Allegra. In
Germany, Nell begins to suspect that she and Godfrey
are being followed by a man in blue-tinted glasses.
They make contact with Rothschild agents in Prague
and are taken into the Josef Quarter where they see
the Golem.
Holmes and
Watson are called to Paris by Worth, after a second
seamstress is murdered. Holmes accepts the case,
having deduced the involvement of Irene from news
reports.
Godfrey and Nell attend a royal reception, at which
Irene arrives in disguise, and where they first
encounter Tatyana. Irene arranges an audience with
the Queen, finding her alone, the King's family
having been sent away from Prague. They encounter
the King with Tatyana, whom Irene recognises as the
Russian spy 'Sable', an associate of Colonel
Moran's. Godfrey attends dinner with the King, as
emissary of the Rothschilds: Tatyana is present
again. Irene sends Godfrey and Nell to interview
Tatyana, while she and Allegra take the Queen on a
tour of the city. Holmes believes that the
Worth murders are somehow linked to Queen Clotilde,
and he and Watson set out for Prague.
Godfrey
receives flowers from Tatyana, the Queen's Worth
mannequins are taken away by the King, and Irene,
Godfrey and Nell break into a rabbi's tomb. The
following night, Nell spots Watson at a royal ball,
and Godfrey is challenged to a duel by the King.
Watson and a man who is possibly Holmes in disguise
agree to stand as seconds. A journey into the
tunnels beneath the city discovers the secret of the
Golem and provides solutions to both Godfrey's and
the Queen's problems, and enables Irene to return to
the stage. Holmes and Watson serve as the clean-up
squad. Nell has an unexpected encounter on the train
home.
NOTE: The
blue-eyed man in Tatyana's hotel room is Rasputin
(see Castle Rouge)
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"Dracula
on the Rocks" (1995)
Included in: Celebrity
Vampires (Martin H. Greenberg)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Irene Adler
adventure
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; The King of
Bohemia; (Elderly Woman at Briony Lodge (Penelope
Huxtable))
Fictional Characters: Dracula
Historical Figures: Bram Stoker; (Charles
Lewis Tiffany)
Other Characters: Penelope Huxleigh; Marylka;
Lucinda; Henri; Horst; Violetta; Two Pinkertons Agents
Date: March 3 - May 4, 1886
Locations: Warsaw: The Imperial Opera House;
Irene's Hotel Room; Lucinda's Dressing Room
Story: In a series of letters to her companion
Penelope Huxleigh, Irene tells how as prima donna at
the Imperial Opera, Warsaw, she has made friends with
an old cleaning woman, Marylka, and the English
ingenue, Lucinda, who is in love with the French
tenor, Henri; the Crown Prince of Bohemia is her
constant escort. Henri asks Irene for help, he feels
that Lucinda is being drawn away from him by a foreign
nobleman. Later that day, Marylka seems distressed,
and gives Irene a rosary and tin crucifix to wear at
night, along with some strings of garlic. Irene steps
in to try to smooth things over between Lucinda and
Henri, but in so doing makes an enemy of Count
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"The Thief of Twelfth Night" (1996)
Included in: Holmes for the
Holidays (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L.
Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr.
Watson; Irene Adler; Elderly Woman at Briony Lodge
(Penelope Huxleigh)
Other Characters: Viola DeVere; Sebastian
Oliver; Antonia Oliver; Barnaby Oliver; Mrs. Oliver;
Olivia Feste; Valentine Feste; Grandmother Oliver;
Andrew Oliver; Curio; Maria Fabian
Date: January 5th, 1903 & January 6th,
1883
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Belleforest
Story: Holmes and Watson reminisce about a
Christmas spent at Belleforest, home of the Oliver
family. During the festivities a jewel, the Epiphany
Emerald, disappeared from the partridge's beak where
it was displayed. Holmes's investigations among the
family members turn up a variety of motives, hidden
Christmas cake and stolen items, but there is an
altogether more innocent reason for the jewel's
disappearance.
NOTE: Most of the characters in
this story are named after characters in
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
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"Mesmerizing
Bertie" (1998)
Included in: Crime Through Time II (Miriam
Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Irene Adler
adventure
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Elderly
Woman at Briony Lodge (Penelope Huxleigh); (Sherlock
Holmes; Godfrey Norton; The King of Bohemia;
Jefferson Hope)
Historical Figures: W.S. Gilbert ; Edward VII
Other Characters: Penelope Huxleigh; Casanova
the Parrot; Christine; Un-named Peer
Date: Autumn, 1882
Locations: Irene's Home in Neuilly, France; The
Savoy Theatre; Gilbert's Kensington House
Story: Irene tells Nell of her first D'Oyly
Carte engagement. At a dinner thrown for the Prince of
Wales, Gilbert demonstrates his new telephone by
phoning the Savoy Theatre and allowing his guests to
listen in to a rehearsal. At the theatre, a chorus
member, Christine, is struck over the head with a lead
fly-weight and killed - the only witness is Prince
Edward who was listening on the telephone at the time
the murder occurred. It is up to Irene to try any
method she can to get the prince to remember exactly
what he heard, and bring the murderer to justice. |
"A
Baker Street Irregular" (1998)
Included in: Midnight Louie's Pet Detectives
(Carole Nelson Douglas)
Story Type: Pastiche narrated by a cat
Canonical Characters: Wiggins; Sherlock
Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; Irene Adler; Elderly
Woman at Briony Lodge (Penelope Huxtable)
Historical Figures: Sarah Bernhardt
Other Characters: Street Arabs; Midnight the
Cat; Otto the Boa Constrictor; Guillotine the Black
Panther; Melange & Fifi the Dogs; Absinthe &
Malice the Snakes; Pocahontas the Opossum; Charlie
Olson
Locations: A London Alley; 221B, Baker Street;
Bernhardt's Hotel Room
Story: Wiggins rescues a tormented cat from a
gang of street arabs and takes it to Baker Street to
see if Holmes and Watson would like to keep it. Sarah
Bernhardt arrives, as the cat is being taken to Mrs.
Hudson, to consult Holmes about some diamonds, missing
from her room. Bernhardt takes the cat, named
"Midnight" by Watson, home with her. It is down to the
cat to investigate Bernhardt's menagerie and give
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Chapel Noir (2001)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Irene Adler
adventure, narrated in part by Watson
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Elderly
Woman at Briony Lodge (Penelope Huxtable); François
le Villard; Sherlock Holmes; (Godfrey Norton)
Historical Figures: Jack the Ripper; Nellie
Bly {Pink}; Bram Stoker; Baron Alphonse de
Rothschild; Edward VII; Baroness Leonora de
Rothschild; Buffalo Bill; Red Tomahawk
Other Characters: Yellow Book Narrator;
Narrator's Charge; Prefect of Police; Carriage
Driver; Man at Brothel; Gendarmes; Prostitutes;
Madame Portiere; Brothel Servants; Rothschild's
Footmen; Rothschild's Butler; Sophie; Gypsies;
Tasarla; Laundryman's Son; Andre; Workmen; Eiffel
Gendarmes; Catacombs Victim; Hotel Bristol Footman;
Hotel du Louvre Porter; Stoker's Messenger Boy;
Booksellers; Children; English Nannies; Morgue
Crowds; Charles; Satanists; Morgue Guard; Morgue
official; Hotel Bristol Elevator Operator; Bordello
Doorman; Hotel du Louvre Chambermaid; Hotel du
Louvre Footman; Cab Driver; Cabinetmaker's
Assistant; Durand; Passersby; Loungers; Priest;
James Kelly; Kelly's Concierge; Cab Driver;
Ill-Dressed Man; Waiter; Exposition Crowds; Gypsy
Fiddlers; Gypsy Dancers
Date: May 18th, 1889 -
Locations: France; Neuilly-sur-Seine; A
Four-Wheeler; Paris; A Brothel in the Rue des
Moulins; Rothschild's Carriage; Rue de
Saint-Florentin; Champs de Mars; The Eiffel Tower;
The Catacombs; Hotel Bristol; Hotel du Louvre; Banks
of the Seine; Notre Dame Precincts; The Paris
Morgue; A Chapel Beneath Notre Dame; Notre Dame
Cathedral; An Omnibus; The Paris Exposition; Buffalo
Bill's Wild West Show; A Cab; Durand Frres
Cabinetmakers; Kelly's Rooms; A Cab; A Street near
the Parc Monceau; A Cellar; A Sewer; Boulevard
Montmartre; The Musée Grévin; A Cavern; The Panorama
Building; A Carriage; (A Train; The Alps;
Prague)
Story: Irene and Nell are summoned to Paris
by Le Villard and the Prefect of Police, to question
the young American girl, Pink, a witness to a double
murder in a bordello. On inspecting the scene of the
crime, Irene is reminded of the Ripper murders.
Among the bordello clientele, and hence a suspect,
is Bram Stoker. Upon leaving the bordello they
travel to Rothschild's home where it is revealed
that the Prince of Wales was also involved in the
incident.
Later, they are summoned back to the
bordello by Pink, where an exploration of the
cellars reveals, among other clues, that they
connect up to the Paris sewers. A further call to
Paris by Le Villard reveals another victim in the
catacombs below the Eiffel Tower. They are summoned
to Holmes's hotel room where he attempts to warn
Irene off the case. Irene visits the Paris Morgue
with Nell and Bram Stoker, and returns at night with
Pink to view the bodies of the three victims. On
their return, they are shot at and retreat into the
cathedral where they stumble upon a crypt in which
dark ceremonies have taken place. Nell is sent to
share information with Holmes. A letter arrives from
Godfrey in Prague, where there are rumours that the
Golem has risen again.
Nell returns to investigate the bordello
with Holmes, while Irene and Pink visit Buffalo
Bill's Wild West Show at the Paris Exposition to
investigate a possible native American connection
with the murders. From the bordello they track down
James Kelly, a suspect in the original Ripper
murders, now in Paris. Irene remains uncertain of
Kelly's role in events, and the three women go out
in male dress to investigate Paris under ground.
What they find there bears marks of the Whitechapel
Ripper case, and leads Irene to a wax museum and
another body. After learning from Holmes that Kelly
has escaped, but still uncertain of his part in the
murders, Irene and her companions join Buffalo Bill
and Red Tomahawk at the Exposition to hunt down the
villains - a hunt that will leave their numbers
diminished. Further horror awaits when those
remaining return to their hotel.
(The un-named characters in the "From a
Yellow Book" chapters are revealed to be Rasputin
& Sable / Tatyana in Douglas's sequel, Castle
Rouge.)
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Castle Rouge (2002)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Irene Adler
adventure, narrated in part by Watson
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Elderly
Woman at Briony Lodge (Penelope Huxtable); François
Le Villard; Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mary
Morstan; Mrs. Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; King of
Bohemia; Clotilde Von Saxe-Meiningen; Colonel Moran
Historical Figures: Jack The Ripper; Nellie
Bly; Edward VII; Sarah Bernhardt; Baron de
Rothschild; Bram Stoker; Buffalo Bill; Rasputin
(Elizabeth Stride; Israel Schwartz; Charles
Preston; Catharine Lane; Matthew Packer; William
Marshall; PC William Smith; Morris Eagle; Fanny
Mortimer; James Brown; Louis Diemschutz)
Other Characters: Red Tomahawk; Rabbi
Barshevich; Leska; Mr. Finn; Quentin Stanhope;
Liesl; Yuri Chernyshev; Tatyana (Sable); Mignon;
Medved; Count Lupescu; Baron Brezová; Tabek, the
Laundryman; Father Lupescu; Un-named Woman; Woman in
Whitechapel; Men in Whitechapel; Whitechapel Bobby;
St. Sulpice's Matron; Working Men's Educational Club
Steward; Chernyshev's Victim; Waiter; Train
Passengers; Urchin With Newspaper; German Police
official; Neukirchen Ticket Seller; Two Bobbies;
Ambulance Men; Magyar Horsemen; Gypsies At Castle;
Band; Footmen; Fortune Teller; Gypsy Girls; Hotel
Waiters; Dwarf; Tatyana's Gypsies; Liveried Serving
Man; Chef; Violinists; Brothel Concierge; Madam;
Prostitutes; Ticket Taker; Station Guards;
Villagers; Worshippers; Accordion Player (Camilla;
Soldiers; Baby; Mother)
Date: June, 1889
Locations: Paris: Irene's Hotel Room;
Exposition Grounds; Buffalo Bill's Tent; St.
Sulpice's Hospital; Notre Dame; Gare Du Nord; A
Train.
London: Watson's Paddington House; 221B, Baker
Street; Whitechapel; Junction of Fairclough &
Berner Streets; The International Working Men's
Educational Club; The Briar & Thistle; Berner
Street.
Neunkirchen; A Castle in Transylvania
Prague: Railway Station; A Carriage; St. Vitus'
Cathedral; An Inn; Fortune Teller's Shop; Irene's
Hotel Room; Jewish Cemetary; Rabbi Loew's Tomb;
Catacombs; Another Carriage; Prague Castle; A
Brothel
Story: With Nell Huxleigh kidnapped by
Ripper suspect James Kelly, and her husband Godfrey
Norton missing in Prague, Irene starts
investigations, with the assistance of reporter,
Nellie Bly, to track all three down. Holmes,
meanwhile, is reinvestigating the Ripper murders of
the previous Autumn in London. During a visit to
Whitechapel he tells Watson of his involvement in
the murder of Liz Stride. In Paris Irene hypnotises
Leska, a survivor of the black mass witnessed in Chapel
Noir, and learns of the involvement of a holy
man.
In Whitechapel Holmes tracks down the
location of similar underground ceremonies, outside
of which they stumble across a victim of a
Ripperlike attack. Holmes is able to apprehend the
attacker, and Watson to save the victim. Pursuing
Kelly across Europe, Irene is not so lucky, and is
summoned to the site of another apparent Ripper
murder in Neunkirchen, from where she travels on to
Prague, joined by Nell's admirer, secret agent
Quentin Stanhope. Meanwhile, Nell and Godfrey have
been imprisoned in the same unoccupied castle, where
Godfrey tells Nell of atrocities in Prague,
including the mutilation of a baby.
Bram Stoker arrives in Prague, once
again appearing on the scene of a Ripperlike murder,
and Godfrey and Nell discover that they are being
held captive by Tatyana, the Russian spy also known
as 'Sable', who is soon joined by "Tiger" Moran.
After Sherlock Holmes refuses to journey to Prague,
and the King of Bohemia and a representative of the
Rothschilds try to stop her investigations, Irene
sets off for Transylvania on horseback. It is Bram
Stoker, however, who is first to discover Nell and
Godfrey's whereabouts, and after he too is made
captive, the three put their escape plan into
action. Nell is attacked by Kelly on the way out,
but rescue comes from a surprising quarter. They are
recaptured and must watch a blasphemous ceremony
before their eventual escape.
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Femme
Fatale (2003)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Irene Adler
adventure, narrated in part by Watson & Holmes
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Elderly
Woman at Briony Lodge (Penelope Huxleigh); Sherlock
Holmes; Godfrey Norton; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson
Fictional Characters: (Svengali)
Historical Figures: Nellie Bly; Mary Jane
Kennedy; Bram Stoker; Oscar Wilde; John Philip
Sousa; (Washington Irving Bishop; Madame
Restell)
Other Characters: Madam Zenobia / Sophie
Dixon; Mrs. Beale; Timothy "Tiny Tim" Flynn; Phineas
LaMar / Professor Marvel; Gordon Evers; Conroy;
Carriage Driver; Mrs. Titus; Hansom Driver; Mrs.
McGillicuddy; Pickpocket; Pickpocket's Victim; Man
in Theatre; Madame Salamandra; Vaudeville
Performers; Audience; Irish Policeman; Messenger
Boy; Coachman; Mr. Fisher; Ticket-taker; Firemen;
Astor House Doorman; Coachman; Gilfoyle's Valet;
Gilfoyle's Butler ; Wilhemina Gilfoyle / Wilhelmina
Hermann; Phoebe Thumbelina Cummings; Records Clerk;
Bill Heron; Daisy; Hansom Drivers; Delmonico's
Maitre d'; Delmonico's Waiter; Quentin Stanhope;
Astor Bellman; Anna Bryant, the Pig Lady; Edith;
Feltman's Waiter; Ferris Wheel Operator; Hansom
Driver; Alhambra Audience; Alhambra Orchestra; The
Maestro / Dieter Stubben; Delmonico's Waiter; Hansom
Driver; Astor House Page Boy; Delmonico's Serving
Staff; Mr. Holly; Carriage Driver; (Nell Nelson;
Henry Dixey; Sidney Drew; Lambs Club Members; Clay
Green; Dr. John Irwin; Dr. Charles C. Lee;
Augustus Thomas; Mrs. Bishop; Eleanor Fletcher
Bishop; Dr. Ferguson; Dr. Hance; Joseph Rinn;
Abyssinia; The Woman in Black; Eliza Gilbert)
Date: August, 1889
Locations: New York; Neuilly-sur-Seine;
221B, Baker Street; A Transatlantic Liner; The Astor
House Hotel; 12, West 35th Street; Union Square; A
Wharf in New York Harbour; Flynn's Boarding House;
The New 14th Street Theatre; Marvel's Rooms;
Gilfoyle's Mansion on Fifth Avenue & 51st
Street; Thumbelina's Rooms; Registry Office;
Holmes's 14th Street Boarding House; Fifth Avenue
& 26th Street; Delmonico's; Fifth Avenue;
Hoboken; Bryant's House; Brooklyn; Coney Island; New
York City Library; A Park; Alhambra Theatre;
Green-Wood Cemetery; (The Lambs Club; Hawkes
Funeral Parlour, Sixth Avenue)
Story: A medium is killed at a séance
attended by Nellie Bly. Irene receives a visit from
Sherlock Holmes, and word comes from Nellie Bly that
someone is trying to kill Irene's mother, although
Irene denies having a mother.
Nell and
Irene travel to New York to investigate, visiting
the scene of the séance murder. Bly also brings
Holmes to New York to investigate. Attending a
performance by the dead woman's sister in a
vaudeville theatre, Irene and Nell save her from
burning to death. Nell learns that Irene spent her
childhood years as a vaudeville performer. They
learn details of a previous death, and are unable to
save Salamandra from a second attempt on her life.
Irene begins interviewing the vaudeville performers
with whom she spent her childhood, and learns of a
woman in black who was frequently seen around the
theatres, paying special attention to the children.
Further
investigation reveals the woman may have been Madame
Restell, the notorious abortionist. Eventually Irene
locates the Maestro, the man responsible for
training her as a singer, and begins to relearn the
forgotten secrets of her past, and unravel the links
to the New York murderer.
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Spider
Dance (2004)
Story Type: Extra-canonical Irene Adler
adventure, narrated by Lola Montez; Penelope
Huxleigh; Nellie Bly & Sherlock Holmes
Canonical Characters: Irene Adler; Elderly
Woman at Briony Lodge (Penelope Huxleigh); Sherlock
Holmes; Godfrey Norton
Historical Figures: Lola Montez; Nellie Bly;
Alva Vanderbilt; William K. Vanderbilt; James Gordon
Bennett, Jr.; Bishop Henry Potter; August Belmont;
Lotta Crabtree; Joseph Pulitzer; Mary Donnelly; Mary
Jane Cochrane; Consuelo Vanderbilt; (Joseph
Pulitzer; Ludwig I of Bavaria; Alexandre Dujarier;
Prince Jung Bahadoor; Victor Mabille; M. Roux;
George Heald; Susanna Heald; William Bennett;
James Gordon Bennett; Michael 'Miska' Hauser;
Patrick Hull; Robert Roy Hamilton; Eva Hamilton;
Baby; Joshua Mann; Mrs T. Anna Swinton;
Rev. Francis L. Hawks; Bishop Horatio Potter; Mary
Ann Crabtree; John Crabtree; Frank Folland; Junius
Booth; William Walker; Alexandre Dumas, pre;
Alexandre Dumas, fils)
Other Characters: New York World
Staff; Walters; Broadhurst; Charles Wilson; Quentin
Stanhope; Astor House Waiter; Vanderbilt's Maid;
Vanderbilt's Footman; Astor House Serving Man;
Vanderbilt's Carriage Driver; Bellevue Guide; Herald
Reporter; Davis; Mr Wheems; Hansom Driver; Cab
Driver; Professor Marvel; Edith; Urchins; Margaret;
Lord Courtenay; Hungry Joe; Archie; Vanderbilt
Mansion Watcher; Man Outside Episcopal Club;
Brentano's Clerk; Cab Driver; Astor House Doorman;
Episcopal Butler; Episcopal Maid; Father Edmonds;
Mrs Kelly; Astor House Messenger Boy; Episcopal Club
Lounger's & Peddler's; Episcopal Club Trio;
Prisoner; Delmonico's Mâitre d'hôtel; Waiter;
Bellevue Nurse; Youth; Boys; Woman; Cab Driver;
Fifth Avenue Desk Clerk; Hack Driver; Holmes's Hotel
Elevator Operator; Holmes's Neighbour; Hotel Staff;
Hotel Guest; Cab Driver; Gurney Driver; Bellevue Day
Nurse; Fifth Avenue Elevator Operator; Astor
Messenger Boy; Gurney Driver; Miss Bristol; Reede;
Hansom Driver; Reisling; Mr Mayberry; Gurney Driver;
Woodcutter; Baker; Doctor; Baby; Orphanage Woman;
Pinkertons Agents; Anna, the Pig Lady; Street
Thieves; Rescuers; Hansom Driver; (Mr. Belmont;
Munich Mob; Alemannia; Würtz; Chief Light in the
Clouds; Gold Miners; Aspinwall Hotel Manager;
Newspaper Men; Mr Middleton; Mr Milne; Hamilton's
Guests; Waiter; W.H. Flippens)
Date: 1847 / August 1889 / Winter 1860
Locations: New York; Astor House Hotel; New
York World Offices; Holmes's Hotel;
Vanderbilt's Carriage; 660, Fifth Avenue; Bellevue
Hospital; Herald Square; New York Herald Offices;
Tearoom; Park Row; Marvel's Rooms; The Episcopal
Club; The Rialto; Brentano's Literary Emporium; 194,
West Seventeenth Street; Theatre; Delmonico's;
Warehouse; Saloon; Mother Hubbard's Home; Bly's
Eighty-Sixth Street Brownstone; Fifth Avenue Hotel;
The Battery; Broadway; Abattoir; Maison d'Orée;
Staten Island; Vanderbilt Mausoleum; Aboard the Alsatia;
(Munich; Philadelphia; Paris; New Orleans; Aboard
the Philadelphia; Aspinwall; Gorgona;
Panama City; Cocoa Grove Hotel; San Francisco;
American Theatre; Atlantic City; Noll Cottage;
Grass Valley; Rabbit Creek; Australia; Aboard the
June A. Falkenberg; Sacramento; Nicaragua)
Story: Irene resolves to stay in America to
investigate further the identity of her mother.
Holmes is summoned to the Vanderbilt mansion, where
a stranger has been crucified on the billiard table,
with no footprints in the room to indicate how he
got there. Vanderbilt has received several
threatening letters demanding restitution for some
unexplained trespass. Irene, following Holmes,
hoping for a clue to her parentage, also sees the
body. Irene looks for an obituary of the woman
Holmes has hinted is her mother in the New York
Herald's archives, but fails to find one. From
Professor Marvel she learns that the woman was Lola
Montez (whose memoirs appear throughout the novel).
Holmes sets
up a network of street urchins to assist in watching
the Vanderbilt Mansion, and follows a man to the
Episcopal Club. Nell sets to decoding Madame
Restell's book detailing abortions and adoptions,
and worries about Quentin's association with Bly who
is investigating a scandal in Atlantic City. Irene's
researches into Lola's background reveal that the
man on Vanderbilt's billiard table was Father Hawks,
Lola's confessor, who believed her jewels had been
stolen after her death.
In a room
once lived in by Lola, Irene and Nell make a
discovery, but learn that they are not the first to
have looked for it. They learn more of Lola's past
from Lotta Crabtree. Holmes rescues a second victim.
Bly inveigles Quentin to pose as her husband while
she investigates a baby-selling ring. Irene
disappears while on a stakeout and Nell joins with
Holmes to search for her. Godfrey arrives from
Bavaria where he has carried out his own researches
into Montez after receiving a telegram from Irene.
He, Holmes and Nell pool their information and
realise that the roots of the case may lie in the
politics of Bavaria. Holmes agrees to set himself up
as bait to draw out the villains, but a kidnapping
at the Vanderbilt mansion forestalls the plan. After
an escape from a slaughterhouse, it becomes a race
between Holmes and Irene to bring the case to its
conclusion.
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