For Sherlock Holmes Irene Adler was always the woman but at the end of A Scandal in Bohemia Dr. Watson had pronounced her dead and gone. However reports of her death were greatly exaggerated. Holmes and Miss Adler had fallen in love at first sight and she promptly moved in with Holmes and Watson at 221B Baker Street. In an effort to protect the delicate sensibilities of the British reading public Watson explained her presence by referring to her as Mrs. Hudson the housekeeper even as Holmes and