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  • The Rake

    BOHEMIA RHAPSODY

    Feb 10, 2022 2 minutes
    by david smiedt

    hose on even nodding terms with literature’s greatest detective (sorry, Hercule) will know that Irene Adler has intrigued fans of Sherlock Holmes for generations — in everything from the original prose to some rather risqué manga of the now. Her continued presence in the Holmes-sphere is surprising when you consider that she appears only once in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original canon — in the 1891 short, where she is an American-born opera singer falsely accused of being a courtesan.

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