The Woman

Originally by Arthur Conan Doyle

Reimagined from the vantage point of Irene Adler

"He called her 'The Woman.' She never bothered to learn his name."

To Sherlock Holmes, she is always 'The Woman' — the only person who ever outwitted him. But who is Irene Adler beyond that single story? An opera singer, an adventuress, a woman who navigated the most dangerous courts in Europe armed with nothing but her intelligence.

Pages

300

Print Price

$24.99

Kindle Price

$9.99

Genre

Historical Mystery

Why This Vantage Point

Sherlock Holmes is the most adapted character in history. Irene Adler appears in only one story but has become a cultural icon. The market for 'brilliant women in historical settings' is massive.

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The Original

"To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex."

— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Reimagined — Irene Adler's Voice

A man came to my door in Baker Street disguise — a clergyman's collar, if you can believe it. Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The papers call him a genius. Perhaps he is. But genius, in my experience, is simply what men call intelligence when they encounter it in another man. When they encounter it in a woman, they call it something else entirely: cunning, manipulation, witchcraft. He wanted the photograph. Everyone wanted the photograph. What none of them understood is that the photograph was never the point.

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