Irene Adler
Also known as: The Woman
The opera singer who outwitted Sherlock Holmes in 'A Scandal in Bohemia' and earned the permanent title of The Woman. Irene appears in a single story, yet fic has spent a century giving her the adventures canon never did.
Other Sherlock Holmes Characters
Sherlock Holmes
8k works
The original consulting detective of 221B Baker Street, Conan Doyle's violin-playing, cocaine-dabbling reasoning machine. ACD-canon fic keeps the Victorian gaslight and pastiche prose alive, over a century after fans first wrote it.
John Watson
6k works
Army doctor, biographer, and the steady hand on the revolver in Conan Doyle's original stories. Watson's devoted chronicling of Holmes reads to many fans as the first great love letter in detective fiction.
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