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ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

"Highly eclectic writer and literary adventuress Douglas is as concerned about genre equality as she is about gender equity," writes Jo Ellyn Clarey in The Drood Review of Mystery.

Carole Nelson Douglas is a journalist turned novelist whose writing in both fields has been a finalist for, or received, fifty awards. A literary chameleon, she has always explored the roles of women in society, first in daily newspaper reporting, then in numerous novels ranging from fantasy and science fiction to mainstream fiction.

She currently writes two mystery series. The Victorian Irene Adler series examines the role of women in the late nineteenth century through the adventures of the only woman to outwit Sherlock Holmes, an American diva/detective. The contemporary yet Runyonesque Midnight Louie series contrasts the realistic crime-solving activities and personal issues of four main human characters with the interjected first-person feline viewpoint of a black alley cat PI, who satirizes the role of the rogue male in crime and popular fiction. ("Although Douglas has a wicked sense of humor," Clarey writes, "her energetic sense of justice is well-balanced and her fictional mockery is never nasty.") Douglas, born in Everett, Washington, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and moved with her husband to Fort Worth, Texas, trading Snowbelt for Sunbelt and journalism for fiction. At the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul she earned degrees in English literature and speech and theater, with a minor in philosophy, and was a finalist in Vogue magazine's Prix de Paris writing competition (won earlier by Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis).

Chapel Noir resumed the enormously well-received Irene Adler series after a seven-year hiatus and with its sequel, Castle Rouge, comprises the Jack the Ripper duology within the overall series. Two more Adler novels, the New York Cityset Femme Fatale and Spider Dance, have followed. The first Adler novel, Good Night, Mr. Holmes, won American Mystery and Romantic Times magazine awards and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The reissued edition of Irene at Large will appear as A Soul of Steel in January 2005.

IRENE ADLER ADVENTURES.

Good Night, Mr. Holmes.

The Adventuress* (Good Morning, Irene).

A Soul of Steel* (Irene at Large).

Another Scandal in Bohemia* (Irene's Last Waltz).

Chapel Noir.

Femme Fatale Castle Rouge.

Spider Dance MIDNIGHT LOUIE MYSTERIES.

Catnap.

Cat in an Indigo Mood Pussyfoot Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit Cat on a Blue Monday.

Cat in a Kiwi Con Cat in a Crimson Haze Cat in a Leopard Spot.

Cat in a Diamond Dazzle Cat in a Midnight Choir Cat with an Emerald Eye Cat in a Neon Nightmare.

Cat in a Flamingo Fedora Cat in an Orange Twist Cat in a Golden Garland Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt.

Cat in a Quicksilver Caper Midnight Louie's Pet Detectives (editor of anthology) Marilyn: Shades of Blonde (editor of anthology).

HISTORICAL ROMANCE.

Amberleigh** Lady Rogue**

Fair Wind, Fiery Star.

SCIENCE FICTION.

Probe**

Counterprobe**

FANTASY.

TALISWOMAN.

Cup of Clay.

Seed upon the Wind.

SWORD AND CIRCLET.

Six of Swords.

Heir of Rengarth Exiles of the Rynth Seven of Swords.

Keepers of Edanvant.