Good Morning Irene [Paperback]

Carole Nelson Douglas (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Tom Doherty (1990)
• ASIN: B001Q5W3KI
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,822,598 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars REVIEW THE BOOK, NOT THE LISTING, May 3, 2005

By 

Crystal Katz (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Adventuress: An Irene Adler Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

Some people who use these review sites give low-star ratings to complain about some other matter than the content of the book. This book cover clearly lists the original title under the new one. You can't read it on the thumbnail, only on the enlarged cover image. Amazon should describe it as a "reissued edition" in the text, but that's not the book's fault. The Readers Guides explain why these new versions were retitled. Another publisher trespassed on the series titles, coming out with "Good Night, Irene," AFTER "Good Night, Mr. Holmes, "Good Morning, Irene," and "Irene at Large" were already out, causing a lot of confusion in distribution and even reviews. The retitled versions end the confusion. People who were misled by the thumbnail should write Amazon directly to rectify the listing. By the way, the book is very adventurous and amusing.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Irene seeks out tattooed chests to solve a mystery, December 3, 2005

By 

F. Orion Pozo "Orion Pozo" (Raleigh, NC USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Adventuress: An Irene Adler Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

The Adventuress is the second in a series of mystery novels based on the career of Irene Adler Norton, a character from one of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. In Doyle's A Scandal In Bohemia Irene Adler outsmarts Holmes and wins his lasting admiration. Carol Nelson Douglas has taken this story as the basis for a series of delightful mystery novels that include Holmes and his companion Watson in mysteries that run parallel to the Holmes stories.

She has also created a framework for this continued series based on a current day historian Fiona Witherspoon who has supposedly discovered the diaries of Irene's companion Penelope "Nell" Huxleigh and unpublished memoirs of Holmes and Dr. Watson that she blends into the novels of the series.

This novel (which was originally published as Good Morning, Irene) takes an obscure reference in Doyle's story "The Sign of the Four" to Holmes going to France on a case involving a missing young woman as the basis for The Adventuress. Also worked into the plot is the 1889 marriage of Alice, Duchess of Richelieu to Prince Albert Grimaldi of Monaco. Anchored on these two points, Ms. Douglas spins a tale of lost treasure and a secret society of men marked with alphabetic tattoos who are drowning by jumping into rivers. The missing girl, Sarah Bernhardt, and Sherlock Holmes all help in solving the mystery of the drowning men and lost treasure.

The story is told through Nell's journals and her prudish country parson's daughter point of view. She is great at describing the details of Irene's lovely wardrobe and meticulously preserving the incidents of the case. A great read in a delightful series of novels. No prior knowledge of Sherlock Holmes is needed to enjoy this book.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It may be a reissue but..., June 24, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Adventuress: An Irene Adler Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

I would not call this book a fraud, it is a reissue with new cover art and a brand new name, however as Good Morning, Irene (the name before the reissue) is out of print, the only people it hurts are people who haven't read the summery well enough to realize that its not new. This is great for newbies to the series as the reissue means its far easier to access than it was previously. I spent about two weeks of my life (which I will never get back) searching for this book before the reissue and ended up buying it on Amazon (...) HOORAY for reissues!!! Its a great book with fantastic dynamic characters, however this book should not be read until the first in the series is read; Goodnight, Mr. Holmes. :)