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Carole Nelson Douglas

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Born

Marysville, Washington, The United States

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Mystery & Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance & Mainstream Women's Fic

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Carole Nelson Douglas is the author of sixty-four award-winning novels in contemporary and historical mystery/suspense and romance, high and urban fantasy and science fiction genres. She is best known for two popular mystery series, the Irene Adler Sherlockian historical suspense series (she was the first woman to spin-off a series from the Holmes stories) and the multi-award-winning alphabetically titled Midnight Louie contemporary mystery series. From Cat in an Alphabet Soup #1 to Cat in an Alphabet Endgame #28.
Delilah Street, PI (Paranormal Investigator), headlines Carole's noir Urban Fantasy series: Dancing With Werewolves, Brimstone Kiss, Vampire Sunrise, Silver Zombie, and Virtual Virgin. Now Delilah has moved from her paranormal Veg Carole Nelson Douglas is the author of sixty-four award-winning novels in contemporary and historical mystery/suspense and romance, high and urban fantasy and science fiction genres. She is best known for two popular mystery series, the Irene Adler Sherlockian historical suspense series (she was the first woman to spin-off a series from the Holmes stories) and the multi-award-winning alphabetically titled Midnight Louie contemporary mystery series. From Cat in an Alphabet Soup #1 to Cat in an Alphabet Endgame #28.
Delilah Street, PI (Paranormal Investigator), headlines Carole's noir Urban Fantasy series: Dancing With Werewolves, Brimstone Kiss, Vampire Sunrise, Silver Zombie, and Virtual Virgin. Now Delilah has moved from her paranormal Vegas to Midnight Louie, feline PI's "Slightly surreal" Vegas to solve crimes in the first book of the new Cafe Noir series, Absinthe Without Leave. Next in 2020, Brandi Alexander on the Rocks.

Once Upon a Midnight Noir is out in eBook and trade paperback versions. This author-designed and illustrated collection of three mystery stories with a paranormal twist and a touch of romance features two award-winning stories featuring Midnight Louie, feline PI and Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator in a supernatural-run Las Vegas. A third story completes the last unfinished story fragment of Edgar Allan Poe, as a Midnight Louie Past Life adventure set in 1790 Norland on a isolated island lighthouse. Louie is a soldier of fortune, a la Puss in Boots.

Next out are Midnight Louie's Cat in an Alphabet Endgame in hardcover, trade paperback and eBook Aug. 23, 2016.

All the Irene Adler novels, the first to feature a woman from the Sherlock Holmes Canon as a crime solver, are now available in eBook.

Carole was a college theater and English literature major. She was accepted for grad school in Theater at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University, and could have worked as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine (a la The Devil Wears Prada) but wanted a job closer to home. She worked as a newspaper reporter and then editor in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. During her time there, she discovered a long, expensive classified advertisement offering a black cat named Midnight Louey to the "right" home for one dollar and wrote a feature story on the plucky survival artist, putting it into the cat's point of view. The cat found a country home, but its name was revived for her feline PI mystery series many years later. Some of the Midnight Louie series entries include the dedication "For the real and original Midnight Louie. Nine lives were not enough." Midnight Louie has now had 32 novelistic lives and features in several short stories as well.

Hollywood and Broadway director, playwright, screenwriter and novelist Garson Kanin took Carole's first novel to his publisher on the basis of an interview/article she'd done with him five years earlier. "My friend Phil Silvers," he wrote, "would say he'd never won an interview yet, but he had never had the luck of you."

Carole is a "literary chameleon" who's had novels published in many genres, and often mixes such genre elements as mystery and suspense, fantasy and science fiction, romance with mainstream issues, especially the roles of women. ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 39,686 ratings · 2,947 reviews · 167 distinct works • Similar authors

	Good Night, Mr. Holmes (Irene Adler, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 2,586 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catnap (Midnight Louie, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 2,038 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dancing With Werewolves (Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, #1) 3.21 avg rating — 1,862 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six of Swords 3.61 avg rating — 1,259 ratings — published 1982 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Morning, Irene (Irene Adler, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 977 ratings — published 1991 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pussyfoot (Midnight Louie, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 843 ratings — published 1993 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Irene At Large (Irene Adler, #3) 4.06 avg rating — 724 ratings — published 1992 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Scandal in Bohemia (Irene Adler, #4) 4.13 avg rating — 685 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cat on a Blue Monday (Midnight Louie, #3) 4.01 avg rating — 649 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brimstone Kiss (Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, #2) 3.61 avg rating — 642 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sherlockian Suspense with Irene Adler eBooks!

The New York Times Notable Book of the Year--Good Night, Mr. Holmes--and the following seven Irene Adler titles are all available in eBook format.

All are by Carole Nelson Douglas, the first writer to take a woman from the Canon as a protagonist, and comprise a groundbreaking reinvention of "THE woman" as a diva detective in her own right.

GOOD NIGHT, MR. HOLMES
THE ADVENTURESS
A SOUL OF STEEL
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Published on January 24, 2014 04:41 • Tags: adventure, historical, irene-adler, jack-the-ripper, london, mystery, new-york-city, nineteenth-century, paris, sherlock-holmes, suspense, transylvania

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Series by Carole Nelson Douglas

Midnight Louie (28 books)
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Irene Adler (8 books)
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Irissa and Kendric (5 books)
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Six of Swords (2 books)
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“Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Red Hot Rage

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“What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas

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“Winning is nothing unless the opponent is worthy”
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“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

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“Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.”
― Bob Dylan, The Essential Interviews

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“Consider the cartoon character of Betty Boop.” “The baby-voiced twenties flapper with the huge eyes and the spit curls…boop-boop-a-doop?” “The cartoon was based on a singer named Helen Kane, but Kane grabbed her share of glory by imitating another singer, Annette Hanshaw. Both Kane and Hanshaw are pop culture footnotes today, almost a hundred years later, but Betty Boop has become a commercial icon of the flapper and lives on in cheesy merchandise everywhere.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Dancing With Werewolves

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“What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.”
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“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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message 7: by Janice

Dec 28, 2017 11:41AM

Happy New Year.

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message 6: by Janice

Jun 26, 2017 11:51AM

I also love the deep reds, watermelon pink, and the purples. Have a great day.

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message 5: by Carole

Jun 26, 2017 11:49AM

Yes, I love to see the white among the colors. "Summer's Snow" is a perfect description!

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message 4: by Janice

Jun 26, 2017 11:42AM

I love those various color titles, and crepe myrtles are among my favorite flowering bushes. I call the white crepe myrtle blossoms Summer's Snow. Have a great day.

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message 3: by Carole

Jun 22, 2017 01:46PM

Janice wrote: "Have a beautiful summertime."

All the crepe myrtle bushes are blossoming and it's really beautiful. I'm designing covers for my new eBook editions of the Midnight Louie series with colors in the titles, Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt and Cat in an Indigo Mood, so I'm working with beautiful blues and purples I see outside. Hope summer is in full bloom where you live!

Janice wrote: "Thank you for friending me. I've been skimming thru your books for years, since I've been working in a public library for over 30 years. I really have loved your Irene Adler books. Have a great day."

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message 2: by Janice

Jun 22, 2017 06:50AM

Have a beautiful summertime.

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message 1: by Janice

May 12, 2017 09:41AM

Thank you for friending me. I've been skimming thru your books for years, since I've been working in a public library for over 30 years. I really have loved your Irene Adler books. Have a great day.

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