Readers will look forward to hearing this heroine's unique voice again soon. Enola shows herself to be an intelligent, rational, resourceful and brave protagonist. Along the way, Enola becomes involved in the search for the missing Viscount Tewksbury, Marquess of Basilwether, and hair-raising adventures ensue. And always I had counted upon setting things right after I was grown. Readers will find the teen's internal monologue quite entertaining ("Always I felt to blame for for whatever, for breathing because I had been born indecently late in Mother's life. Her mother has left behind a little book of ciphers, so the 14-year-old disguises herself and heads to London, where she hopes to outwit her brothers and find her mother. But Enola ("which, backwards, spells 'alone,' " she points out) rebels. After Enola's mother disappears, her older brother, Sherlock (yes, that one), and oldest brother, Mycroft, whom she has not seen in 10 years, seem bent on forcing her into a steel-ribbed corset and sending her off to boarding school. The Case of the Missing Marquess By Nancy Springer Book description Introducing Londons newest and greatest detective: Enola Holmes - the book that inspired the film, starring Millie Bobby Brown. Springer (Rowan Hood I Am Mordred) proves that she is as comfortable in England's late 19th century as she was in Sherwood Forest and Camelot with this debut title in the Enola Holmes Mystery series.
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