Irene Adler
About
Irene Norton, née Adler, is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A former opera singer and actress, she was featured in the short story "A Scandal in Bohemia", published in July 1891. While not technically a criminal and bearing no malice towards Holmes, Adler is one of the most notable female characters in the Sherlock Holmes series, despite appearing in only one story. Due to the fact that she outsmarts him and evades his traps, Sherlock Holmes refers to her afterward respectfully as "the Woman."
