Besides using my own extensive library on this period, I’ve borrowed from my local library all sorts of arcane books they don’t even know they have because no one ever checks them out. The Internet aids greatly with the specific fact. I’ve also visited London and Paris to research the books, a great hardship, but worth it. I also must visit Las Vegas periodically for my contemporary-set Midnight Louie mystery series. No sacrifice is too great.
Q: You’ve written high and urban fantasy novels, why did you turn to mystery?
A. All novels are fantasy and all novels are mystery in the largest sense. Although mystery was often an element in my early novels, when I evolved the Irene Adler idea, I considered it simply a novel. Good Night, Mr. Holmes was almost on the shelves before I realized it would be “categorized” as a mystery. So Irene is utterly a product of my mind and times, not of the marketplace, though I always believed that the concept was timely and necessary.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Belford, Barbara. Bram Stoker. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Bunson, Matthew E. Encyclopedia Sherlockiana. New York, NY; MacMillan, 1994.
Coleman, Elizabeth Ann. The Opulent Era. New York, NY: The Brooklyn Museum, 1989.
Crow, Duncan. The Victorian Woman. London UK: Cox &Wyman Ltd, 1971.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes. Various editions.
Gold, Arthur and Fizdale, Robert. The Divine Sarah. New York, NY: Knopf, 1991.
Hibbert, Christopher. The Royal Victorians. New York, NY: Lippincott, 1976.
Mackay, James. Allan Pinkerton: The Eye Who Never Slept. Edinburgh, Scotland: Mainstream Publishing Co., Ltd., 1996.
National Gallery of Australia. Paris in the Late 19th Century. Publications Department, National Gallery of Australia: Canberra, Australia, 1996.
Russell, John. Paris. New York, NY: Abradale Press/ Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
www.carolenelsondouglas.com
Carole Nelson Douglas is the award-winning author of 60 novels in the mystery/thriller, science fiction/fantasy and romance/women’s fiction genres. She currently writes the long-running Midnight Louie, feline PI, cozy-noir mystery series (Catnap, Pussyfoot, Cat on a Blue Monday etc.) and the Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, noir urban fantasy series (Dancing with Werewolves) set in imaginative variations of Las Vegas: contemporary and paranormally post-apocalyptic.
Carole was the first author to make a Sherlockian female character, Irene Adler, a series protagonist, with the New York Times Notable Book, Good Night, Mr. Holmes. She has won Lifetime Achievement Awards from RT Book Reviews for Mystery, Suspense and Versatility and was named a Pioneer of Publishing. She’s also won several Cat Writers’ Association first-place Muse Medallions. Carole has e-published (www.wishlist.com) shorter fiction.
A daily newspaper reporter, feature writer and editor in St. Paul, she moved to Fort Worth to write fiction fulltime and was recently inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame.
ALSO BY CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS
“Her fine Sherlockian novels and her Midnight Louie books have turned her into a genuine mystery star. Pick one up and you'll see why.”—Ed Gorman, founder of Mystery Scene magazine
The New York Times Notable IRENE ADLER Series
Good Night, Mr. Holmes... The Adventuress... A Soul of Steel... Another Scandal in Bohemia... Chapel Noir and Castle Rouge (Jack the Ripper duology)... Femme Fatale...Spider Dance
The MIDNIGHT LOUIE Feline PI series
Catnap... Pussyfoot... Cat on a Blue Monday... Cat in a Crimson Haze... Cat in a Diamond Dazzle... Cat with an Emerald Eye... Cat in a Flamingo Fedora... Cat in a Golden Garland... Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt... Cat in an Indigo Mood... Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit... Cat in a Kiwi Con... Cat in a Leopard Spot... Cat in a Midnight Choir... Cat in a Neon Nightmare... Cat in an Orange Twist... Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit... Cat in a Quicksilver Caper... Cat in a Red Hot Rage... Cat in a Topaz Tango... Cat in a Sapphire Slipper... Cat in an Ultramarine Scheme... Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta... Cat in a White Tie and Tails... Cat in an Alien X-Ray
The DELILAH STREET, Paranormal Investigator series
Dancing with Werewolves... Brimstone Kiss... Vampire Sunrise... Silver Zombie... Virtual Virgin
Table of Contents
AUTHOR’S NOTE
CAST OF CONTINUING CHARACTERS
FOREWORD
THE NAVAL TREATY
READERS GUIDE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY THIS AUTHOR
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