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A Beautiful and Terrible Murder

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Perfect for fans of Stalking Jack the Ripper, this historical murder mystery follows the cunning Irene Adler as she teams up with the mysterious Sherlock Holmes to discover who is murdering Oxford's elite students in the All Souls class. Irene Adler is no ordinary young lady.... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Perfect for fans of Stalking Jack the Ripper, this historical murder mystery follows the cunning Irene Adler as she teams up with mysterious Sherlock Holmes to discover who is murdering Oxford's elite students in the All Souls class.

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Perfect for fans of Stalking Jack the Ripper, this historical murder mystery follows the cunning Irene Adler as she teams up with the mysterious Sherlock Holmes to discover who is murdering Oxford's elite students in the All Souls class.

Irene Adler is no ordinary young lady. She's at the top of the ranks in the All Souls cohort, a competitive preparatory class reserved for Oxford's brightest minds. But her peers and professors don't know she's a lady at all. To them, she is Isaac Holland.

Keeping up her disguise gets trickier when All Souls students start dying, one by one. Determined to find out who's responsible for the deaths, Ireneβ€”as Isaacβ€”teams up with fellow classmate and roommate Sherlock Holmes to track down clues. Their mission grows more dangerous by the day as someone tries to frame Isaac for the murders, and Irene's own father, Dean Moriarty, begins to threaten her seat in school.

Readers will love following these classic and beloved characters through the twists and turns in the dark halls of Oxford, and discovering what secret lies behind the glitz and glamour of the elite.

Don't miss the Daughter of Sparta series, also by Claire M. Andrews:

Daughter of Sparta

Blood of Troy

Storm of Olympus

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780316575362

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 July 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Little, Brown Young Readers

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 448

About the Author

Claire M. Andrews was raised in both Alaska and Scotland, but currently lives in Vermont. She is the author of the Daughter of Sparta series and the Irene Adler duology and invites you to visit her on Instagram and Twitter at @cmandrewslit.

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