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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