Enola Holmes: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories
3.8
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Nancy Springer
Enola Holmes is hiding from the world’s most famous detective—her own brother, Sherlock Holmes. But when she discovers a hidden cache of bold, brilliant charcoal drawings, she can’t help but venture out to find who drew them: young Lady Cecily, who has disappeared from her bedroom without a trace. Braving midnight streets where murderers roam, Enola must unravel the clues—a leaning ladder, a shifty-eyed sales clerk, political pamphlets—but in order to save Lady Cecily from a powerful villain, Enola risks revealing more than she should . . . In her follow-up to The Case of the Missing Marquess, which received four starred reviews, two-time Edgar Award winner Nancy Springer brings us back to the danger and intrigue of Victorian London as she continues the adventures of one of the wittiest and most exciting new heroines in today’s literature.
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Author
Nancy Springer
Pages
256
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2008-05-15
ISBN
1101533250 9781101533253
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"The second in the series of Enola's adventures in London. This one is quite a bit darker than the first. The story is interesting and compelling, though might be a little too dark and/or deep for some younger readers.<br/><br/>Enola, under the guise of a false identity, has decided to become the first scientific perditorian - finding lost people or things using evidence, observation, etc. She is basically following in her brother's footsteps, all the while trying to evade Sherlock and Mycroft. In this story, she's trying to find a missing girl not much older than herself, Lady Cecily, who seems to have gone missing under unusual circumstances. In addition, she's still trying to figure out why her mother left and where exactly she is now.<br/><br/>This story had more depth than the first, and kept me interested the whole time. There was one question I still had at the end of the book, though...<spoiler>It was never clear if Cecily actually had multiple personalities, or if she just repressed her true self to fit in with societal expectations.</spoiler> Even so, I still enjoyed this story."
Laura Lamb