Title: Chapel noir
Subtitle: an Irene Adler novel
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.
Subjects: Women detectives, Detective and mystery stories, Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character), Fiction, Historical fiction, Irene Adler (Fictitious character), Adler, irene (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Private investigators, fiction, Paris (france), fiction, Fiction, general
Places: Paris, Paris (France), France