Meet Sherlock Holmes’s greatest rival…no, not Moriarty. Irene Adler, the only person to ever “beat” Holmes. How does Arthur Conan Doyle’s greatest counter to Holmes speak in the context of the late Victorian era, especially in relation to today’s women in detective fiction? What is Doyle’s generation’s fascination with “categorizations” and how do the women he writes fit in—or break out of—these categorizations? And how does our all-female cast further break recent portrayals of Doyle’s famous detective?