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Submitted: August 25, 2012
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The Woman - Part Twoby *Elflover21

Digital Art / Photomanipulation / People

"You have the photograph?"
"I know where it is."
"And how did you find out?"
"She showed me, as I told you she would...when a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she values most...the alarm of fire was admirably done, the smoke and the shouting were enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the right bell-pull."
~ A Scandal in Bohemia, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

My second piece in a series of three depicting Irene Adler, one of two people who outsmarted Sherlock Holmes.
For those of you unfamiliar with the story, Irene Adler was an American singer who became involved with the King of Bohemia, but, of course, the king would not marry her, since he was royalty and she wasn't. Five years later, the King was about to marry a different woman and Irene Adler threatened to send the photograph of her and the King together to the bride's family, therefore destroying the wedding plans. The King hired Sherlock Holmes to get the picture from her, and here I depict his plan: A smoke rocket was tossed through the window, accompanied by shouts of fire, and she immediately rushed to save the photo, thus giving its location to Holmes. So, naturally, he thought he had succeeded