Adler Volume One: Woman of Mystery

It's the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time Women are never to be entirely trusted - not the best of them. - Arthur Conan Doyle. 1902. Wounded in the Boer War, Jane Eyre returns to a London transmogrified by emerging modernity. An old friend, the glamorous inventor Lady Havisham, introduces her to the American adventuress Irene Adler , and the two seek lodging together. But Adler is engaged in a brutal secret war against a mortal enemy of the British Empire: Ayesha, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, who seeks revenge against the colonisers who destroyed her country. And Jane, not unwilling, is swept up in the case. As Queen Victoria holds on to her throne with the help of experimental new medicine, Adler and Ayesha both fight for the secret weapon developed by the scientist Madame Curie. And as Ayesha and her amazons (not to mention her pet assassin Carmilla) take over the London underworld, Adler must form a team of determined women to stop them - before the Empire is destroyed. From World Fantasy Award winning author Lavie Tidhar (The Violent Century, Central Station) and artist Paul McCaffrey (Anno Dracula) comes a pulse-pounding, gorgeously-illustrated graphic novel of Victorian menace, excitement and humour in Tidhar's inimitable style. About author(s): Lavie Tidhar is author of Osama , The Violent Century , A Man Lies Dreaming , Central Station , and Unholy Land , as well as the Bookman Histories trilogy. His latest novels are By Force Alone , The Escapement and children's book The Candy Mafia . His awards include the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the Neukom Prize and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Adler is his first graphic novel. The brilliant Paul McCaffrey is an artist and illustrator whose work has graced numerous publications, from magazines like Empire , NME and The Spectator , to educational materials from Collins, Heinemann, Macmillan and the Cambridge University Press. He drew Anno Dracula for Titan Comics, worked on DC's Men of War and on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , and drew covers for Dr Who . Adler is his first creator-owned work.