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, bri...
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May 02, 2011
Kathryn
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My second Enola Holmes mystery on audibook narrated by the great Katherine Kellgren. I think, in many ways, I liked this better than the first book. It is more focused on an actual mystery/case, whereas the first one seemed more character building and setting the scene with a mystery tacked on. They mystery is interesting in terms of character and plot and also in terms of historical aspects. Women's rights and metaphysical stuff and Marxism. Very cool! My only negative is that the beginnin
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Nov 10, 2011
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Reading back on my original review, I'm not sure so much about the narration being much older between the first and second book. This time I read them back-to-back and didn't really notice much of a change.
She's still very mature for a 14 year-old-girl, but that was always the case and didn't notice a real difference this time.
My favorite parts of the re-read were the scenes with Enola and Sherlock. It's interesting, for me, to see his portrayal in these books and sort More...
She's still very mature for a 14 year-old-girl, but that was always the case and didn't notice a real difference this time.
My favorite parts of the re-read were the scenes with Enola and Sherlock. It's interesting, for me, to see his portrayal in these books and sort More...
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Dec 15, 2008
Dawn
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Enola Holmes, younger sister of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, has escaped her brothers’ attempts at domesticating her by fleeing boarding school. Her mother is blamed for her wild ways and like her daughter, is a free spirit. Enola, flush with cash from dear old mom, disguises herself as a homely secretary Ivy Meshle and opens a private detective agency in London, committed to finding missing persons (Scientific Perditorian) under the guise of a Dr. Ragostin. Enola gives the reader qu
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Jun 05, 2011
Karen
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Enola Holmes, 14-year-old sister of famous detective Sherlock Holmes, has been abandoned by her mother and has run away from oldest brother Mycroft Holmes, who wanted to send her away to boarding school. With the money her mother has given her, Enola figures out how to live alone in London: renting office space and living quarters, and creating believable disguises to help her fool people around her. Like Sherlock, Enola is smart and talented. While she is busy hiding from her older brothers,
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Feb 22, 2011
Kayna
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Enola Holmes, whose first name backward spells Alone, is the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. At the age of 16 she is out on her own posing as Dr. Ragostin, Mrs. Ragostin, Miss Ivy Meshle, and the Sister of the Streets. These personalities allow Enola to elude her brother's eye, whom she's hiding from, to investigate missing person cases, and perform anonymous service for beggars. As Mrs. Ragostin, Enola visits Mrs. Alistare whose daughter has disappeared. Enola decides there are three possibi
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Jan 05, 2010
Barbara
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Enola Holmes is the much younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft. Did you know that?
In a charming children's series, Nancy Springer has given her readers a 14-year-old girl who has the stunning Holmes intellect and powers of detection, but who also has compassion and a wider breadth of emotions.
This is the second book in the series -- the fourth was just released in hardcover – and success has not diminished Springer's ability to capture her readers, young and old, from th More...
In a charming children's series, Nancy Springer has given her readers a 14-year-old girl who has the stunning Holmes intellect and powers of detection, but who also has compassion and a wider breadth of emotions.
This is the second book in the series -- the fourth was just released in hardcover – and success has not diminished Springer's ability to capture her readers, young and old, from th More...
Aug 02, 2009
Susan
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Anyone who likes mysteries will like this book, especially if they are a ‘Sherlock Holmes’ fan. Enola is Sherlock’s spunky 14 year old sister. She refuses to just be a society lady who is married off to the first eligible gentlemen and is expected to sew and draw and play the piano and not EVER think! She runs away from home and sets up a detective office with herself as the “secretary” of an imaginary boss. But in various disguises she travels around London solving mysteries. Guess who he
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Oct 11, 2010
Stephanie
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In this, the second of the series, Enola Holmes is living in London masquerading as a young miss named Ivy Meshle and working for the famous Perditorian, Dr. Ragostin. What is a "perditorian" you say? Good question, I had to look it up myself. A perditorian is a finder of lost things. And Dr. Ragostin is reputed to be very good at what he does although most people have never heard of him.
In truth, Dr. Ragostin doesn't actually exist. He and his reputation are entirely made More...
In truth, Dr. Ragostin doesn't actually exist. He and his reputation are entirely made More...
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Jan 18, 2012
Terri Lynn
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This is the second story in a series of books about Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes' much younger (14 years old) sister Enola who was abandoned by their free-spirit mom who ran off with the gypsies leaving the clever child with plenty of cash. Sherlock and Mycroft want to send her to a girls' school to learn the boring arts of becoming a "lady" ready to be married off but the feisty Enola is having none of it.
In this second story, Enola is still living in London, pretending to More...
In this second story, Enola is still living in London, pretending to More...
Jan 24, 2012
Momm
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Another "Enola Holmes" mystery. I do love this quirky younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft. To ensure her independence in a mid-1800s time where women are always subject to men and where women's intelligence is questioned, Enola and her mother have set out separately to set up an independent life for themselves.
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Enola is posing during the day as Ivy Meshle ("Holmes" re-interpreted!), a secretary to the scientific perditorian Dr. Ragostin (who doesn't exis More...
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Enola is posing during the day as Ivy Meshle ("Holmes" re-interpreted!), a secretary to the scientific perditorian Dr. Ragostin (who doesn't exis More...
Aug 08, 2009
Jeanette
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The Second installment of Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes mystery series finds Enola firmly established in her life of hiding in London. Enola has opened up shop as Dr. Leslie T. Ragostin, Scientific Perditorian (finder of lost things.) Because "Dr. Ragostin" does not actually exist Enola spends her days posing as his secretary Miss Ivy Meshle, meeting with and interviewing any potential clients of Dr. Ragostin. Enola also spends her nights in disguise as a sister who roams the streets o
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Nov 27, 2011
Josephine
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This is the second book in a series about a 14 year old girl named Enola Holmes. She is the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock wants to send her off to boarding school to become a lady and Enola doesn't want to go so she goes undercover to escape her older brothers. It's fun to watch Sherlock be outsmarted by his younger sister!
Overall I really enjoyed this book and I'm excited to read the first in the series to see how it all begins. The writing was excellent and engaging. Some of More...
Overall I really enjoyed this book and I'm excited to read the first in the series to see how it all begins. The writing was excellent and engaging. Some of More...
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Mar 14, 2011
Heidi
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Another enjoyable mystery. Unfortunately, the title did take away some of the "ah-ha!" of Enola's discerning mind. I love her ability for disguises. And I thought the climax very interesting, too. I cannot say that I am in love with the book, but I blame that on myself and not following as well as I could/should have.
The narrator for the audio is still delightful. However, I decided to get the radio version from NetLibrary because the file size was smaller. Ug. I've gotten More...
The narrator for the audio is still delightful. However, I decided to get the radio version from NetLibrary because the file size was smaller. Ug. I've gotten More...
Feb 09, 2009
Miss Clark
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Jul 12, 2008
June
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This is my new favorite children's mystery series. It features Sherlock Holmes younger sister: Enola - which is alone spelled backward. I was a little leery of reading the first in the series: Case of the Missing Marquess. However, it was one of the quickest reads I have ever read. I will start the next in the series tomorrow.
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Jun 13, 2011
Flavia
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Enola Holmes, who's name spelled backwards is Alone, happens to be the 14 year old sister of the great detective Sherlock Holmes and Mycroft Holmes. Like all adolescents she rebels against the wishes of her brothers who are now responsible for her and want to send her to a boarding school.
Enola by nature is a free spirit and refuses to be domesticated by anyone, she was given freedom by her mother who had 'run away' as well, and she intended to keep it.
The second book, The Case of t More...
Enola by nature is a free spirit and refuses to be domesticated by anyone, she was given freedom by her mother who had 'run away' as well, and she intended to keep it.
The second book, The Case of t More...
Oct 19, 2009
Charlotte
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This book is fun--a knock off of the classic Sherlock Holmes stories. The premise is that Sherlock Holmes' little sister Enola has broken the conventions of victorian English society and has run away from home to become a detective like her brilliant brother. She has her adventures and solves mysteries while at the same time eluding Sherlock Holmes who is looking for her and trying to bring her home to behave like a proper young lady. A couple critisms I have of the book: it has an overtly femi
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Apr 27, 2010
Ann
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Another wonderful book from Springer in the Enola Holmes Mysteries!!
I listened to the audio version and was completely impressed with the production! I had been picky about Katherine Kellgren's narration in the first installment of this series, criticizing that her voices were good, but that many sounded similar. I had no such concerns with this book and felt Kellgren captured each character almost perfectly! :)
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I listened to the audio version and was completely impressed with the production! I had been picky about Katherine Kellgren's narration in the first installment of this series, criticizing that her voices were good, but that many sounded similar. I had no such concerns with this book and felt Kellgren captured each character almost perfectly! :)
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Jun 27, 2009
Andrea
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my daughter spotted this teen?series:
[close:] 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 o More...
[close:] 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 o More...
Nov 04, 2009
Bonnie
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I also listened to this-excellent production. The continuing adventures of Sherlock Holme's younger sister in often very dark and sinister Victorian London-as our heroine continues to do good, help others, and using her secret identity and the money provided by her runaway mother desperately keeps trying to evade Holmes and Mycroft who want to turn her into a proper and marriageable Victorian young lady by shipping her off to a finishing school. This series seems to be aimed at Middle School
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Jul 17, 2009
Chris
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Even better than the first--far more plot and tension, and greater complexities regarding how Enola--a 14-year old girl--can live alone in Victorian society. Relationship between her and her brother, Sherlock, is especially captivating. And the central mystery is not only intriguing, but resolved in probably the only realistic way for a girl of her age in those times.
Looking forward to the next one!
P.S. FYI--These are definitely for older young adults and teens. The lang More...
Looking forward to the next one!
P.S. FYI--These are definitely for older young adults and teens. The lang More...
Mar 02, 2009
Jess
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Although the 'case of the left-handed lady' mystery is fairly self-contained, this story really builds on the events of the first Enola Holmes mystery, The Case of the Missing Marquess An Enola Holmes Mystery. Enola is living in London, using a variety of disguises to avoid her brother, Sherlock, and using her ciphers and codes to try to locate her still-missing mother. Having had a rather unconventional childhood, Enola is both of her time - the late 1800s - and an outsider. There's plenty
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Jan 08, 2012
Ruby Scarlett
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Outstanding. Oh I'm so glad. That was even better than the first volume in the series. Enola is such a great, great heroine, it's an absolute joy to follow her adventures. Lady Cecily, whose disappearance Enola investigates, was so interesting to read about as well. Feminism, socialism, this has it all. Nancy Springer manages to be descriptive enough and thus gives us a really good picture of what it's like to be a woman in Victorian England but that doesn't mean the pace is slow - the plot move
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Jan 02, 2012
Michelle
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I enjoyed this one more than the first one. The story was tighter. I loved it when Enola outsmarts her brother Sherlock and stuns him as she reveals the solving of the case. I didn't love the case as much as the first--it involves a hint of a split personality and hypnosis. However, it was wonderful to see Enola work around the difficulties of being a woman and I love her ability to solve cases precisely because she understands women. It's a great book for junior high teen girls. And it is a lot
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Jun 11, 2010
Bridget R.
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Enola Holmes is holding her own in London, though she is forever running into her brother Mycroft and Holmes. But she's become a master at alluding her pursuers. She's set herself up as Dr. Leslie T. Ragostin, the only scientific perditorian. In layman's terms, a finder of lost things. Naturally, no one ever sees the good doctor. They encounter only his secretary Miss Ivy Meshle. When needs be, Enola can also disguise herself as Mrs. Ragostin. She needs just such a disguise when she hears that L
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Oct 01, 2009
Lauren
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Ok, 14 year old girl, out smarts the big SH. Well, she is his sister! Remember, Ginger was dancing backwards in heels, and Enola is one smart girl. And 14 - well at 14 she could already be a mother so not really so far fetched. Ok - really far fetched but I do like her and and I do like the idea of her getting in to her brother's house twice without being caught. And if you had her mother you would have to be strong or already be dead at 14 so, I'm buying it. Good fun mysteries for girls!
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Jul 27, 2011
Ami
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The Enola Holmes series continue to impress me as intelligent, thoughtful older elementary/middle school books. I love that glimpses into the world of Victorian England are being introduced to our children. I wish I would have had these books to read when I was eleven.
That being said, my only real complaint of "The Case of the Left-Handed Lady" is that at times the plot appears slightly far-fetched and fanciful. Split personalities and hypnosis....really?
That being said, my only real complaint of "The Case of the Left-Handed Lady" is that at times the plot appears slightly far-fetched and fanciful. Split personalities and hypnosis....really?
Aug 01, 2010
Rebekah
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I thought this mystery was clever and fun, and the main character, Enola is very entertaining. However, I was a bit annoyed because the author uses Animal Magnetism in the story as though it were real (that is involuntary hypnosis that can be done with magnets). Hypnosis cannot be done against someone's will, that's why hypnotist ask for volunteers--they're people who WANT to be hypnotized. Other than that... Great. It even makes you think too.
Sep 10, 2009
Verona
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We listened this book on CD. Well written story about Sherlock holmes sister, Enola. She defies her brothers insistence that she go to boarding school and become a 'proper lady'. Instead living on her own, using disguises to play the part of different people(much like her brother Sherlock) and solving mysteries. It was fun to listen to because the Narrator has a English accent and the story itself keeps your attention as you try to solve the mystery too.
Jan 04, 2012
Susan
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Enola Holmes is the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. She is 14 and has run away from home because she doesn't want to become a proper lady. Instead, she has set up a detective agency under an assumed name, and is trying to find Lady Cicely who has disappeared from her house without a trace. In the meantime, Sherlock is trying to find her.
I really enjoyed this book and also learned about London during the time of Sherlock Holmes.
I really enjoyed this book and also learned about London during the time of Sherlock Holmes.
