![]() ![]() If he does not support her, she will let everyone know and ruin the family. ![]() ![]() Her father agrees, but later reneges.Ĭharlotte decides that the "logical" alternative is lose her maidenhead in secret and blackmail her father into paying for her education. Before her first Season, Charlotte, declaring herself uninterested in marriage, strikes a bargain with her father: she will participate in the Season, but if she does not accept any potential suitors, her father will finance her education to become the headmistress of a girls' school (one of the few vocations in Victorian England which allows an unmarried woman a sufficient income). After all, they don't interfere in his life.Charlotte Holmes has no choice but to deal with them-and how she deals with them would define the paths of her life." Ĭharlotte creates the fiction of a "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective" and masquerades as his sister to solve crimes within the limited opportunities for women in Victorian England.Ĭharlotte Holmes, the youngest daughter of the noble-but-impoverished Lord and Lady Holmes, possesses a razor-keen intellect and unique talents for observation and deductive reasoning, but her parents under-value these gifts, declaring them off-putting to a potential husband. "A Sherlock Holmes has the luxury of not thinking about such rules. In the novel, Thomas gender-flips Sherlock Holmes into Charlotte Holmes. It is the first novel of Thomas' "Lady Sherlock series". ![]() A Study in Scarlet Women is a mystery by Sherry Thomas. ![]()
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