by Nancy Springer (j Springer and/or jPB Springer)
Having read a novel by this author many years ago, I was intrigued to see that she penned this. It’s the first in the “Enola Holmes Mystery” series for middle-grade readers. The first 6 books were penned between 2006 and 2010 but two more have been published in 2021-2022. The style is semi-formal as befits the time period, which is fine with me. In Springer’s concept 14-year-old Enola is the much younger sister of Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes, both of whom she barely knows, and the latter whom she greatly admires. When her mother goes missing in this introductory volume and, as a result, her elder brother wants to send her off to boarding school, Enola undertakes her own search for “mum”. Although she has very clever plans for how to avoid her brothers and be taken for an adult to everyone else, complications arise. One of these is to become involved in a faux kidnapping which turns all too real. I am interested to check out other books in the series. And, Girl Power!!
(If you enjoy this, you may also
wish to try the Nancy Drew mystery series by Carolyn Keene, the Myrtle Hardcastle mystery series by Elizabeth C. Bunce, Murder is Bad Manners by Robin Stevens or The Detective’s Assistant by Kate Hannigan.)
( official Nancy Springer
web site ) | ( Netflix’ official Enola Holmes
TV-series web page )
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