Crystal Nights [Mass Market Paperback]

Carole Nelson Douglas (Author)

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• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam (June 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553285777
• ISBN-13: 978-0553285772
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,870,525 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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With her home office a Twilight Zone landscape of mannequins in vintage dress, no wonder award-winning ex-journalist and novelist Carole Nelson Douglas's 55 novels range from historical and contemporary mystery and romance to science fiction thrillers to high and urban fantasy. They include two Las Vegas-set series: the Midnight Louie, feline PI, mysteries partially narrated by a "Sam Spade with hairballs" and the Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, noir urban fantasies of werewolf mobsters and Silver Screen zombies in a paranormal Vegas.

Douglas was the first author of a Sherlockian series with a female protagonist, diva-detective Irene Alder, the only woman to outwit Holmes, debuting with the New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Good Night, Mr. Holmes. Rachel McAdams plays Irene in the Dec. 25 film with Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock. Douglas says if she has a literary muse, it's definitely feline: mysterious, wise, playful, and packing sharp shivs in velvet gloves.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Double-up containing two titles, November 14, 2009

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This contains two of Douglas' early titles set at the Crystal Phoenix hotel in Las Vegas that preceded the alphabetical Midnight Louie series: Jill of Diamonds (later published as The Cat and the Jill of Diamonds) and Solitaire.