num_pages: 395
description: Alive and well despite the widely published accounts of her death, diva Irene Adler and her dashing husband Godfrey Norton are taking coffee with their friend Nell Huxleigh in a Parisian sidewalk café when a stranger dressed in Oriental garb falls at their feet. It is not Irene's beauty that has felled him, but a dose of poison--and even more surprisingly, the friends learn as he recovers that he is an Englishman! The mysterious young man informs them that he is seeking a Dr. Watson who tended his wounds at the disastrous battle of Maiwand, a man whose life he says is now in mortal danger.The hunt is on and their search will lead them to a command performance for the Empress of all the Russias and to Sarah Bernhardt, into a channel steamer and at last to the doorstep of 221 Baker Street, where they will discover deadly secrets both past and present.
language: English
title: A Soul of Steel
titlecomplete: A Soul of Steel (Irene Adler, #3)
characters: Irene Adler
genres: Cozy Mystery, Historical Mystery, British Literature, Historical, Mystery, Detective, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 704
series: Irene Adler
publisher: Forge Books