New Releases by Carole Nelson Douglas

A delightful Victorian adventure novel about the only woman Sherlock Holmes has ever admired: Irene Adler. Originally published as "Irene at Large," this novel finds diva-turned-detective Irene engaging in a battle of wits with Holmes and a vicious killer who''s hiding a traitorous past. Reissue.

Ace freelance PR woman and amateur detective Temple Barr is 30-going-on-19 when she agrees to do homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina a big favor and go undercover as a contestant at Teen Idol, a TV reality show. The lieutenant is worried because someone is threatening the contestants--including her own 13 year old daughter--by leaving mutilated Barbie dolls all over Las Vegas. Reliving the years of melodrama and teen angst while acting as a nanny-cum-diversion is bad enough, but Temple is dismayed to discover her professional nemesis is in charge of PR for Teen Idol-and, even worse, her romance novelist aunt has flown in from New York to be a judge. Can redheaded Temple fool her nearest and least dearest with a black dye job to complement her new punk persona, Xoë Chloë Ozone? Temple is on her own among 28 unnatural blonds, who all say they''d kill to make the final cut and be named Teen Idol Queen... and one of them might actually do it. Usually Temple has an ace or two up her sleeve, but Max Kinsella, Temple''s ex-magician boyfriend, is AWOL plotting to infiltrate a sinister cabal of terrorist magicians, and neighbor-slash-sometime love interest Matt Devine is in Chicago, tracking down his shocking family roots. Luckily, there''s one one alpha male Temple can always lean on: Midnight Louie, her black alley-cat roommate. Louie is already on the case, ensuring that all the "little dolls" under his care debut on national TV as more than lovely corpses. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Irene Adler, a beautiful opera singer with a talent for detection, is called upon to rescue handsome barrister Godfrey Norton and clashes with Sherlock Holmes himself.

Honeymooning in Paris, Irene Adler and her husband Godfrey Norton become embroiled in the investigation of the drowning death of a sailor. Originally published as "Good Morning, Irene." Reissue.

Irene Adler is the only woman ever to have outwitted Sherlock Holmes... and the one who has come closest to stealing his heart. She has competed (and sometimes cooperated) with the famous fictional detective over six popular and acclaimed novels, featuring her daring investigations across the Continent. All along, the beautiful and brilliant American diva-turned-detective has managed to conceal her background and history, even from her dashing barrister husband, Godfrey Norton, and her devoted companion and biographer, English spinster Nell Huxleigh. But she has had some help along the way to do this, from such unlikely sources as the Baron de Rothschild, Sarah Bernhardt, and Bram Stoker, as well as the soon-to-be-infamous Nellie Bly, a daring American journalist who helped Irene hunt Jack the Ripper. Now Nellie has wired Irene some astounding news, news that will shake her world: Irene''s mother is the target of an assassin. Irene’s past is shrouded in secrecy, and at first she is unwilling to divulge anything that would link her to America. But a series of bizarre killings in New York City draws her reluctantly back to her native country, where she must race with a murderer to find her mother, a woman of mystery who may turn out to be the most notorious woman of the nineteenth century. As Irene forges a trail into her own hidden past, Nellie Bly draws another ace investigator across the Atlantic to join in the hunt for a serial killer, the last man on earth Irene Adler wants to discover anything about her shocking past... Sherlock Holmes.

Midnight Louie''s New England excursion to film a cat food commercial has him dreaming of celebrating his October 31st birthday with his dainty Persian co-star the Divine Yvette. But they are visiting the haunted coastal village of Innsmouth, where the intrepid feline sleuth is destined to rendezvous with danger beyond belief ...

A Midnight Louie mystery.

Sherlock Holmes part à Paris enquêter sur la disparition mystérieuse d''une jeune fille de bonne famille. C''est à Paris justement que vit désormais incognito, Irene Adler laissée pour morte dans un accident de train avec son mari Godfrey Norton. La cantatrice a déjà donné bien du fil à retordre à Holmes autrefois. Invitant son amie Penelope à passer quelques jours chez elle, les deux femmes vont être témoins d''une scène macabre. Un cadavre est repêché dans la Seine, il est habillé en marin, porte un tatouage étrange sur la poitrine et il lui manque un doigt. L''intrépide Irene se lance aussitôt dans une enquête aux allures de chasse au trésor, qui la conduira de Paris à Monte-Carlo pour finir sur les côtes crétoises. Dans cette course échevelée, elle croisera des personnages aussi divers que Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde ou Bram Stoker qui l''entraîneront dans un tourbillon réjouissant. Nous retrouvons Sherlock Holmes, plus en forme que jamais. Sa route va croiser celle d''Irene Adler la cantatrice-détective qui n''a pas froid aux yeux. Leurs enquêtes vont s''entremêler une fois de plus et avec Irene, Holmes pourra vérifier cet adage populaire : à malin, malin et demi...

Irene Adler--the American diva who is the only woman ever to have outwitted Sherlock Holmes--her barrister husband Godfrey Norton, and their companion, Nell Huxleigh, come home to Paris. But rest is fleeting, for Irene is approached by a royal princess who is faced with a loveless husband--and a puzzling dilemma that could destroy several European nations. Original.

In Cat in a Midnight Choir, the fourteenth Midnight Louie Mystery, both feline and human evil-doers and crime-solvers work overtime to make Las Vegas the Capital of Noir Suspense. This time our feisty black cat detective is hunting a mysterious and possibly murderous organization of renegade magicians called the Synth, which has been making Las Vegas too hot to hold for some of Louie''s human friends, particularly ex-magician Max Kinsella. Louie''s on the case . . . but the trick may be on him this time. And just to make things interesting, while Louie and his furred cohorts battle black magic, both human and not-so-human, Louie''s cherished roommate, plucky PR freelancer Temple Barr, is investigating the murderous side of the Synth despite the intense discouragement of female homicide lieutenant C. R. Molina. Molina herself is secretly moonlighting as an undercover operative to nail the killer of a sad, young stripper, and the search has boiled down to two suspects: Temple''s current significant other, Max Kinsella, and Molina''s long-gone ex-lover, Raf Nadir. Unfortunately, proving either man guilty will seriously impact the lives of Molina and her daughter, Mariah. As Louie and his human friends sink deeper into a lose-lose situation of crime and punishment, there doesn''t seem to be any way out of this escalating crisis, except another murder. Can Louie solve some nagging past mysteries, find out just what some mad magicians have in store and stop the stripper killer before he claims another victim? And what will Louie do if he finds that the killer is someone Louie knows . . . and likes? At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Before Caleb Carr and Laurie R. King, Carole Nelson Douglas gave readers a compelling look into Victoriana with a bold new detective character: Irene Adler, the only woman to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes. An operatic diva and the intellectual equal of most of the men she encounters, Irene is as much at home with disguises and a revolver as with high society and haute couture. Chapel Noir is the fifth book in Carole Nelson Douglas''s critically acclaimed Irene Adler series, which reinvents "the woman" that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced in "A Scandal in Bohemia" as the heroine of her own extravagant adventures. This time readers are thrust 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. 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. But 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 . . . At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The purring P.I. is back with his human partner, Templeton Barr, and her significant other, Max Kinsella. While in Las Vegas, Louie follows a Siamese cat to the world''s largest science fiction convention that''s filled with characters and fans in costume. When a prominent player is killed, not only is the method of death perplexing, but the suspects are in a cast of thousands.

Midnight Louie, that loveable and feisty feline sleuth returns once again to delight his legions of fans in Carole Nelson Douglas''s Cat in a Leopard Spot. This time, not only does Louie have to bail out his favorite investigative partner, public relations woman Temple Barr, but he has to save a fellow feline from a charge of Murder One. All of Louie''s and Temple''s allies and enemies converge on the case when a big-game hunter is found dead with only a leopard for company. And the fun really begins when the unofficial investigators learn that the leopard is Osiris, a performing Big Cat who was kidnapped from his magician owner only days before the murder. Add to the mix a woman who''s been surgically altered to resemble a Big Cat, a group of Las Vegas high-rollers who''ve been paying big bucks to illegally hunt big game at the victim''s ranch, and a cadre of ardent animal rights protesters secretly staking out the premises, determined to stop the illegal killing at any price, even their own lives. . . . At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Midnight Louie, feline detective, and his human partner, Temple Barr, take on a mysterious case involving death threats, ghosts, and the King himself--Elvis Presley.

Pistol-packing poker queen Jill O''Rourke is an Annie Oakley at nailing targets or cards. She needs to be sharp at both, since she secretly supports her desert-rat grandfather and his cronies on her poker winnings -- a dangerous profession for a young, pint-sized woman in Las Vegas. Stardusted balladeer Johnny Diamond finds himself a prisoner of fame when a stalker threatens him. Love and death are in the cards, but the jet-black feline house detective known as Midnight Louie sees all, knows all, and gets his paws into the action.

A tourist named Gayle meets up with a mysterious stranger named Solitaire who is a baccarat referee at the Crystal Phoenix Hotel in Las Vegas. But soon they are sent to the surrounding desert area by a pair of hit men and fight for survival.

A Midnight Louie mystery.

Las Vegas feline sleuth Midnight Louie witnesses the appearance of a corpse in the pools around the Oasis Hotel, a dead man with ties to both boyfriends of his redheaded, high-heeled human companion, Temple Barr.

Midnight Louie, a tomcat sleuth, and his human companion Temple Barr head for the Big Apple to celebrate Christmas but they find murder mixed in with their merriment.

Midnight Louie, the crime-fighting cat, and his human partner, Temple Barr, become embroiled in the murder of comic actor Darren Cooke when they set out to find a killer.

Midnight Louie, the black tomcat detective with a nose for the notorious, returns in the ninth episode of Carole Nelson Douglas''s beloved series chronicling the follies of everyone''s favorite feline. Back in Las Vegas after a holiday trip to the Big Apple, Midnight Louie witnesses death on the Nile when the battling Egyptian barges outside the Oasis hotel bring a dead body to the surface. The soggy victim is well known to Louie''s redheaded, high-heeled human companion, Temple Barr: her two best beaux have been closely involved with the drowned man, and both have reasons to want him dead. Perhaps Temple can finally choose between handsome hotline counselor and ex-priest Matt Devine and the mysterious magician, Max Kinsella - by finding out which of her beaux is a killer. And then there are the new girls in town: an inscrutable lady magician named Shangri-La, who may play a bigger role in this scenario than anyone might think; and her winsome Siamese familiar, who may solve Louie''s problems by giving him the key to her heart - or the key to solving the mystery.

A Midnight Louie mystery.

Five yuletide romances about divine intervention include Mary Balogh''s "Guarded by Angels," Marilyn Campbell''s "The Trouble With Angelina," Carole Nelson Douglas''s "Catch a Falling Angel," Emma Merritt''s "Brush of Angel Wings," and Patricia Rice''s "Tin Angel." Original.

Midnight Louie, the lop-eared tom with an attitude, and Temple Barr, his red-headed companion with a nose for trouble, investigate the killing off of purebred winners at the Las Vegas Cat Show

Irene Adler, the sexy counterpart to Sherlock Holmes, confronts the King of Bohemia, her former lover and the one man who had nearly destroyed her, and turns to her sleuthing friends for help when the case becomes more than elementary. 12,500 first printing.

Irene Adler searches the countries of Europe for the mysterious Englishman Quentin and to save Dr. Watson from danger.

A Public Relations freelancer in Las Vegas and her eighteen-pound tomcat encounter a dead publisher and the theft of two short-eared cats from ABA exhibit hall in a Baker & Taylor exhibit booth.