She was the only woman in Sherlock Holmes' life. She alone was able to defeat the great detective and melt his icy heart. Their relationship cannot be called just “love” - it was something more: Irene Adler bewitched Holmes once and for all. And although their personal lives are shrouded in fog, like the streets of Victorian London, this book reveals the secret of Sherlock Holmes's only love. Mysterious murders and sinister intrigues, theft of secret documents and deadly chases through the labyrinths of London slums, séances and haunted mansions - this novel should have been called “a Victorian detective story in the best traditions of the genre”, if Irene Adler had not proven that it goes against women’s intuition and “female logic” sometimes even the “deductive method” of Sherlock Holmes is powerless! Previously, the book was published under the title “Death as an Encore. Save Sherlock Holmes!