Chapel noir
Subtitle: an Irene Adler novel
By: Carole Nelson Douglas.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Book
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
Subjects: Adler, Irene (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Women detectives -- France -- Paris -- Fiction; Paris (France) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The story thrusts readers into one of the darkest periods of criminal fact and fiction when two courtesans are found brutally slaughtered in the lavish boudoir of a Paris house that dare not speak its name. No woman should ever see such horrors, authorities declare, but a powerful sponsor has insisted that Irene investigate the case, along with her faithful companion, sheltered parson's daughter Penelope Huxleigh.

Yet does anyone really seek the truth, or do they wish only to bury it with the dead women?" "For there is a worse horror that will draw Irene and her archrival, Sherlock Holmes, into a duel of wits with a fiendish opponent: These Paris killings mimic a series of gruesome murders that terrorized London only months before. In a dangerous and disreputable part of town known as Whitechapel."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. (491]-492)