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CASTLE ROUGE
by Carole Nelson Douglas
Forge, September 2002
540 pages
$25.95
ISBN: 031286941X


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CASTLE ROUGE is number six in a series of novels written by Carole Nelson Douglas. These books are set in the Victorian era and feature such well known characters as Sherlock Holmes, his partner Watson, Brahms Stoker, Buffalo Bill and Jack the Ripper.

The main character and heroine in these books is Irene Adler. Irene is an opera singer who also has the distinction of being the only woman to best Sherlock Holmes at the game of detecting.

In the previous book in this series CHAPEL NOIR Irene has helped solve a series of murders attributed to Jack the Ripper. At the onset of CASTLE ROUGE Irene discovers that Jack has escaped his prison/asylum and feels she must help capture him again before the murders start again. However she soon discovers that her husband, a lawyer and her companion Nell are missing. She fears that there is a connection and these people closest to her may be dead.

In hunting down Jack, Irene calls upon many of her acquaintances including, Sherlock Holmes, his helper Watson, Bram Stoker, Buffalo Bill Cody and most unlikely of all an American prostitute named Nellie "Pink" Blye. Miss Blye seems to have an agenda of her own.

The story takes the reader from the streets of Paris, to the outreaches of Bohemia and the dark and forbidding lanes of Transylvania.

This book is well written and surely intended for the lover of all things Victorian, Sherlock Holmes fans and anyone who has a fascination with Jack the Ripper and even Dracula. It made this reader consider going back to read the previous books.

Reviewed by Susan Johnson, December 2002

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