The first Irene Adler novel by Douglas, immediately preceding Good Morning, Irene, which retells Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia from Irene and Nell's perspective.
We learn how the narrator Nell Huxleigh met Irene; of Irene's early years in London when she struggles with her singing career and develops a sideline as an investigator; how she meets Godfrey Norton, her future husband; how they despise each other at first, in the best rom-com tradition; her operatic triumphs in Warsaw that draw her to the attention of the future King of Bohemia; their falling out; and, finally, the events of “A Scandal in Bohemia”.
These books are a lot of fun. Douglas uses the prim Nell and the independent Irene to explore women's roles in society, while also playing homage to Sherlock Holmes.
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