Castle Rouge: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler, and Jack the RipperMacmillan, 21.09.2002 - 544 Seiten 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) the men she encounters, Irene Adler is as much at home with a spyglass and revolver as with haute couture and gala balls. And her adventures are the stuff of legend. She has faced down sinister spies, thwarted plots against nations, spurned a monarch and lived to reap a sweet revenge...and now is on the hunt for one of the true monsters of all time-Jack the Ripper. It was she who led a most unlikely group of allies through the cellars and catacombs of 1889 Paris in the search and capture of the suspect at a horrific secret-cult ceremony held beneath the city. But disaster has scattered those allies and the Ripper has again escaped, this time from the custody of the Paris police. Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, and Watson, to reinvestigate the Whitechapel murders of the previous fall from an entirely new angle. 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. What should Irene do first? Search for Nell, Godfrey, or the Ripper? Though Irene has many highly placed friends, the Baron de Rothschild, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Prince of Wales can only offer money and good will. 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. The trail will lead back to Bohemia and on to new and bloodier atrocities before pursuers and prey reunite at a remote castle in Transylvania, where lthe Ripper is cornered and fully unveiled at last . . . a truly astounding yet chillingly logical answer to what the world has never known before: Who was Jack the Ripper? |
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Inhalt
Cast of Continuing Characters | 23 |
Prelude | 27 |
Evening in Paris | 30 |
Plainsmen in France | 44 |
Somewhere in London | 60 |
Pitiless Whitechapel | 74 |
Inhospitable | 89 |
Ripper Redux | 97 |
Auld Acquaintance Not Forgot | 276 |
X Marks the Spots | 286 |
Game for Dinner | 292 |
Digging Deeper | 304 |
In the Soup | 321 |
Caught Mapping | 329 |
Cryptic Doings | 335 |
Dance for Your Supper | 346 |
Taking the Air | 112 |
Uneasy Allies | 124 |
The Devil His Own Way | 130 |
A Stray Chicken | 134 |
Cold Comfort | 139 |
Cork and Candle | 142 |
Twixt Heaven and Hell | 149 |
Unknown in Whitechapel | 153 |
The Wild East Show | 161 |
Nell Ungirds Her Loins | 166 |
Sterner Stuff | 171 |
A Lukewarm Baptism | 179 |
Sentimental Journey | 189 |
Of Corsetry and Atrocity | 206 |
The Queen and I | 225 |
Lone Wolf | 229 |
Rapunzel in Ashblond | 232 |
Irene and the Gypsy Queen | 239 |
Alone | 253 |
Foreign Activity | 263 |
Bloody Words | 356 |
Alone at Last | 360 |
Sovereign Security | 371 |
Shades of Whitechapel | 383 |
Killing the Cobra | 392 |
Fleeing Prague | 395 |
A Guest | 398 |
A Mystery Man Indeed | 406 |
Before the Dawn | 418 |
Dangerous Explorations | 427 |
Trapped Like Rats | 446 |
A Midsummer Nightmare | 453 |
Nameless Practices | 463 |
Unholy Spirit | 475 |
Journeys End | 479 |
Found and Lost | 485 |
The Disposition | 496 |
The Inquisition | 503 |
Afterword | 516 |
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