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Violence
Some
Victorian murder investigation; some crime-scene content
Language
Barely any
Period language
Sexual Content
Some
Charlotte's scandal involves sexual content in backstory; the romance is slow-burn
Substance Use
Barely any
Period social drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
Charlotte's calculated rejection of Victorian propriety as survival; the cost of being the smartest person in the room when you're a woman
What this book is about
Charlotte Holmes, after a calculated scandal that severs her from respectable society, reinvents herself as the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes—who officially doesn't exist, but whose clients are real. Her partner is Inspector Treadles. A Study in Scarlet Women is a brilliant feminist reimagining that makes Charlotte the sharpest mind in Victorian London.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Murder investigation
Charlotte's past includes being 'ruined'—sex occurs but isn't depicted
Feminist Sherlock Holmes reimagining—rewarding
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