A Beautiful and Terrible Murder

Book #1 in the Irene Adler series

A disguised student and Sherlock Holmes hunt a killer among Oxford's elite.

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432 pages· 102,764 words· Est. 9.5 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Irene Adler, posing as Isaac Holland, is a top student at Oxford's All Souls College. When her classmates start dying, she teams up with Sherlock Holmes to unmask the murderer. As danger looms and her secret identity is threatened, Irene must navigate a web of deceit and ambition. Can they solve the mystery before she becomes the next victim?

From the publisher

Perfect for fans of Stalking Jack the Ripper, this historical murder mystery follows the cunning Irene Adler as she teams up with the mysterious Sherlock Holmes to discover who is murdering Oxford’s elite students in the All Souls class. Irene Adler is no ordinary young lady. She’s at the top of the ranks in the All Souls cohort, a competitive preparatory class reserved for Oxford’s brightest minds. But her peers and professors don’t know she’s a lady at all. To them, she is Isaac Holland. Keeping up her disguise gets trickier when All Souls students start dying, one by one. Determined to find out who’s responsible for the deaths, Irene–as Isaac–teams up with fellow classmate and roommate Sherlock Holmes to track down clues. Their mission grows more dangerous by the day as someone tries to frame Isaac for the murders, and Irene’s own father, Dean Moriarty, begins to threaten her seat in school. Readers will love following these classic and beloved characters through the twists and turns in the dark halls of Oxford, and discovering what secret lies behind the glitz and glamor of the elite.

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