Irene Adler: differences between novels and Sherlock

The Woman of Sherlock Holmes

Irene Adler is not just the woman for Sherlock Holmes but, is The Woman for readers of Sherlock Holmes.

There's transposition, revision, discussions among fans who do not put the Adler as the predominant figure of the canon.

For several verses of Moriarty.
A what makes it so special? Adler managed to beat Sherlock in cunning, in advance of the game, disguise imparting a lesson in style and honor to the customer, but also the only character who tries to discover the private life Sherlock Holmes, and I intend to private sentimental, the detective.

The woman Moffat

The Adler Moffat is a dominatrix who loves power and power games.
Its customers are powerful and illustrious, his cell phone is an archive of confidential and compromising.
Adler becomes part of the life of Sherlock called to retrieve images that portray scabrous with a female member of the Royal family. The British Government and the CIA and unspecified enemies seek, but his game is, especially with Sherlock Holmes for the first time is in front of a person does not surprise by his deductions.

The perspicacity of Irene Adler, the courtship of Adler, make sure that Sherlock feels the threat of his intelligence, much to deprive yourself of what Sherlock loves most: highlight the intellectual inferiority of others.


Engage in a question and answer with Irene Adler Sherlock lead to bitter his cleverness and he cannot compromise his cool detachment.
Step back: Irene Adler is a series of clichés of femme fatale. The red fingernails, the choice of blood red lip, the entry unveiled effect.
But she had anticipated all this to say: every disguise ultimately is always a self-portrait, and she has presented step by step to one that is.

A Dangerous Woman. There you should never trust, especially when you feel special, so vulnerable.

For once it was Sherlock to see without looking. The attraction between two charismatic individuals and egomaniac like Sherlock and Adler cannot be unique. The Adler Moffat is therefore the Woman beats Holmes, but only with the whip. If there is victory, it is emotional: the bringing Sherlock to admit to having feelings. The banal - but only for the rest of the world - message of good wishes for the New Year is testimony.