Carole Nelson Douglas

Her mission on behalf of Oscar Wilde, her discovery of Marie Antoinette's Zone of Diamonds, her capture of a murderer in Bohemia, her insights into Bram Stoker's tea party, and her battle with Sherlock Holmes, all demonstrate the genius of Miss Irene Adler, the beautiful and mysterious American opera singer. Reissue.

An Irene Adler Novel

Good Night, Mr. Holmes

Delilah Street, who watched underworld beings like vampires and witches move into the real world during a Y2K television broadcast as an orphan, moves to Las Vegas to search for a possible blood relative shown on "CSI."

Dancing with Werewolves

When a dead body turns up at the American Booksellers Association convention and the Baker & Taylor mascots are catnapped, public relations expert Temple Barr and her cat, Midnight Louie, decide to investigate. Reissue.

A Midnight Louie Mystery

Catnap

Six of Swords

Cat in an alien x-ray

The sudden appearance of an Elvis ghost is holding up the remodeling of a local hotel, but the discovery of a dead flesh-and-blood Elvis raises even more questions, in a lively mystery following the exploits of feline sleuth Midnight Louie and his human partner, Temple Barr. Reprint.

Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit

Las Vegas' feline supersleuth and his redheaded owner go on the prowl when a Madison Avenue ad agency's chief executive forgoes his traditional Santa suit for a company party and instead hires an actor, who somehow turns up dead, and the dazzling duo must catch a killer

Cat in a Golden Garland

Midnight Louie, the black tomcat with a nose for trouble, must save his redheaded companion, Temple Barr, from a killer terrorizing Las Vegas

Cat in a Crimson Haze

Sherlock Holmes' female counterpart, Irene Adler, is in Paris reading her own obituaries when a drowned sailor, recently fished from the Seine and who bears a mysterious tattoo, draws her into a new adventure

Good Morning, Irene

Matthew Baugh

Alan Foster

Timothy Zahn

Kage Baker

Keith R. A. DeCandido

Joe Gentile

Jennifer Fallon

Joe Lansdale

Johnny D. Boggs

Craig Shaw Gardner

Win Scott Eckert

Zorro...The Return of the Original Masked Avenger! For more than eight-seven years, Zorro has entertained and thrilled audiences around the world. Now, fans of the original masked avenger can enjoy this second volume of tales filled with danger, romance, and intrigue, thrilling to the further exploits of Zorro as he rides his faithful steed, Tornado, to defend the weak and battle the villains of Old California! In the fall of 2008, Moonstone Books and Editor Richard Dean Starr (Hellboy, Kolchak: The Night Stalker) were pleased to publish Tales of Zorro, the first collection of original Zorro short stories ever published. Now, Moonstone Books is proud to present More Tales of Zorro, the second anthology featuring all-new, original tales of The Fox! This groundbreaking compilation includes never-before-seen stories and essays from a fantastic lineup of today's top writers including Alan Dean Foster, Timothy Zahn, Joe R. Lansdale, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Craig Shaw Gardner, Jennifer Fallon, Carole Nelson Douglas, and Henry Darrow.

More Tales of Zorro

Nicky Fontana hires Van von Rhine to manage an abandoned Las Vegas hotel and the pair find themselves in danger and realize they are falling in love

The Cat and the King of Clubs

After being warned that her mother has become the target of an assassin, Irene Adler heads for New York City, where she investigates a series of bizarre killings while trying to find her long-lost mother.

Femme Fatale

WHEN THE STAKES ARE DEAD -- OR UNDEAD! Werewolf mobsters and vampires run Vegas, but that's yesterday's news for Delilah Street, paranormal investigator. What's truly fearsome is her bloody discovery of an undead evil rooted in ancient Egypt. Now, with her lover Ric fighting for life after a grim battle, the chips are down. But Delilah is a born winner who has never let a little danger throw off her game, and she's been learning fast since she came to Sin City. Her affinity for silver is making mirror-walking a real breeze, and being forced to accept the albino rock star sorcerer Snow's Brimstone Kiss has ramped up her powers to a startling new level. With the help of her trusty uber-wolfhound Quicksilver, not to mention the orange demon parking valet Manny, Delilah is determined to solve even more paranormal secrets, and hopefully save the few innocents left in town. But can Delilah win her high-stakes gamble for life and love against ancient gods and lethal supernatural odds?

Delilah Street: Paranormal Investigator

Vampire Sunrise

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.

A Novel of Suspense featuring Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler, and Jack the Ripper

Chapel Noir

In a sequel to Femme Fatale, diva-turned-detective Irene Adler, accompanied by her faithful chronicler Nell, daredevil reporter Nellie Bly, and master sleuth Sherlock Holmes, works to outmaneuver her enemies and learn the truth about her secret birth, a mystery with ties to the California Gold Rush and a notorious woman. Reprint.

A Novel of Suspense Featuring Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes

Spider Dance

A novel of suspense featuring Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes.

IRENE ADLER . . . She's one of the most mysterious women in literature, an American and the only woman to have outwitted the world's greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes.ON FILM . . . You've seen Irene Adler as the fetchingly treacherous minx paired with Robert Downey Jr.'s portrayal of Sherlock Holmes as an action hero and human calculating machine.You can see her as an apparently naked dominatrix in the BBC's modern take on a young, totally wired Sherlock Holmes.Or you can read about her further adventures after she bested Holmes in "A Scandal in Bohemia," as written by New York Times Notable Book of the Year author Carole Nelson Douglas, author of the acclaimed Good Night,Mr. Holmes and seven other novels following the adventures of Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes after "Scandal."This novella, "The Private Wife of Sherlock Holmes," reports the pair's most recent and intriguing encounter in post-Jack the Ripper London, from Baker Street to a high society brothel. Shocking, my dear Holmes!According to the critics from the New York Times, Publishers Weekly and daily newspapers, Irene Adler as "the dashing heroine in Carole Nelson Douglas's enchanting Victorian series" is "a Victorian age Ms. who blithely flouts conventions and triumphs in not one, but two careers0́4opera diva and detective" . . . "unconventional, irreverent, at least a century before her time0́4witty, competent, competitive, adventurous and like Holmes himself, fascinated with the curious and the criminal" . . . "the only woman Sherlock Holmes admired and indeed she lives up to the honor."REVIEWS:"I think Carole Nelson Douglas has told the exact truth about Ms. Adler, and whenever I reread "A Scandal in Bohemia" that truth will be part of the story for me." 0́4Chris Redmond, B.S.I., ASH in The Waterloo Sherlockian Letter."To capture the attention of the misogynistic and asexual Mr. Holmes, a woman would need to be quite remarkable, and Douglas's Irene is beyond remarkable."0́4Mary Willis Walker in Mostly Murder"Douglas has made Adler a superb detective and invented a perfectly delightful0́4and perfectly puzzling0́4series of cases for her." 0́4Judy Alter in The Fort Worth Press"Plenty of Sherlockian deductions, even from Sherlock Holmes himself, who plays a good role in all the intrigue. But it's Irene's show all the way, and highly entertaining. You won't be disappointed!"0́4Mostly Murder

The Private Wife of Sherlock Holmes

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 . . .

Zombies and Witches and Vamps . . . Oh, My! What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas—at least that’s Delilah Street’s hope. With Sin City’s vampire and werewolf mobs wanting to cash in her chips once and for all, she’s retreating with her partner Ric Montoya and half-wolfhound Quicksilver to her Kansas birthplace. Unfortunately, when it comes to finding trouble, there’s no place like home. . . . It doesn’t take long before Delilah realizes she’s not in Vegas anymore. Zombie cowboys and spectral cattle drives are kicking up dust, the local weather girls are total witches who forecast perfect storms, and some Hollywood fanatic is recasting zombies as the greatest stars of the silver screen. And speaking of silver, Delilah’s special affinity for the all-purpose monster-repellent leads her posse straight down a silver brick road—and into a notso- fun house of mirrors—putting her face-to-face with her dicey past and a mystery woman named Lilith, who’s a real dead ringer for Delilah. The key word being dead.

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