Irene Adler
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
Irene Norton born Adler.
- To Sherlock Holmes, she was always the woman (SCAN 1).
- She is a well-known adventuress (SCAN 176).
- She was the lover of von Ormstein (SCAN 176).
- She was born in 1858 in the New Jersey (SCAN 183).
- She was contralto (SCAN 184).
- She sang at La Scala (SCAN 185).
- She was Prima donna at the Imperial Opera of Warsaw (SCAN 186).
- She retired from operatic stage and was living in London (SCAN 187).
- She had a soul of steel (SCAN 246).
- She had the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men (SCAN 247).
- She lived in Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood (SCAN 271).
- At Serpentine Mews, men said Irene Adler was the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet (SCAN 311).
- She married Godfrey Norton (SCAN 364).
- She gave a sovereign to the last-minute best-man (Sherlock Holmes disguised). Holmes wear it on his watch-chain in memory of the occasion (SCAN 367).
- She had a superb figure (SCAN 474).
- The only reward Sherlock Holmes accepeted from the King of Bohemia was the Irene's photo portrait (SCAN 648).
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