6/19/2010

3.75

A cute, quick little story that I read in a couple of hours last night. It does have some dark parts that some parents might not like for their young children, though - i.e. it references the Ripper murders at one point, talking about a prostitute who was slit open.

Enola, the scandalously younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, sets out to unravel her own mystery when her mother disappears. She also has to deal with the prospect of going to boarding school, the horrors of wh More...

Caitlyn Duff
Summary of Book

In the book Nancy Springer rates An Enola Holmes Mystery: Case of the Missing Marquess is a mystery book for a younger reading level. This book is a book about a fourteen-year-old girl who is different from many people in the late nineteenth century England. Enola Holmes is the younger sister of her much older brothers, the famous Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes. Enola calls for a small family reunion when her mother goes missing on her birthday, leaving behind very littl More...

AMAZING!!!!! so good completley enjoyed it! it toook me a while to really start it and get into it but once i did i couldnt stop! its definatley a must read!
I loved the sherlock holmes story so when i was searching for a book at BYU i decided to give this one a try. And its turned out to be a great read. I love the feminine twist to the famous sherlock holmes.
definatley loved the adorable matching covers :)

School book reveiw: When i started reading this book I found it slightly hard to get in to More...

Quick, light, enjoyable.. There's not much to say about this book. It was a cute little whodunit type mystery starring Sherlock Holmes's little sister Enola. I read it over the course of about two hours, which is pretty darn quick for me (I'm a slow reader, I like to savor the words, deal with it), but somehow it didn't lack for character development like a lot of shorter stories do. It didn't blow me away, but it was a fun way to pass an evening, and I might even read on in the series if I'm ev More...

I bought this for the kid a while back. I *certainly* didn't want to read it. One of my least favorite novels of all time was a Holmes knock off. Lucky for me, this year I've been trying to catch up on books that have been languishing unread on my shelves (vs. buying new books to languish).

What Springer did absolutely right is that she didn't make Enola into a little Sherlock clone. Sure she's bright and clever, but not really exceptionally so. Instead her defining characteristics are curiosity, More...

Enola Holmes is the much younger sister of Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. Raised by her Rationalist mother in the country, Enola runs wild and a bit uneducated. But then, on her 14th birthday, Enola's mother vanishes. Sherlock won't look for her, and Mycroft is too busy getting Enola enrolled in a boarding school to teach her to be a proper lady. So Enola makes a plan and runs away to London to find her mother.

Lots of action and adventure, with some clues and cyphers thrown in for good measure. T More...

Springer, N. (2006). An Enola Holmes Mystery: The Case of the Missing Marquess.
New York: Puffin Books.

9780142409336

After her mother has gone missing, Enola Holmes must call for her two older brothers, one of whom is the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Threatened with boarding school, Enola instead decides to escape to search for her mother. She happens upon another mystery of a ten-year-old Marquess who is missing from his home. Enola’s search for both the Marquess and her mother will take her More...

Always on the look out for things to stock my nieces' bookshelves with and being a fan of Sherlock Holmes, I was very pleased to come across Wealhtheow Wylfing's reviews of this series on my update feed, especially as it's Hailey's birthday this month (May).

Enola Holmes is the much younger sister of Mycroft and Sherlock, and for the past 14 years has been living with her mother on the family's estate, Ferndell Hall. When Mum disappears on Enola's birthday, the girl comes under the direct guardia More...

Enola Holmes is the much younger sister of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his brother Mycroft. Both of her brothers have moved to London and Enola is living with her mother and a few members of the staff at Ferndell Hall, her father having past away several years earlier.

Mycroft, being the eldest son, controls the estate yet allows his mother and youngest sister to live there. He has been sending money to his mother regularly in order to pay for the upkeep of the grounds and the wages More...

Oh, God, this is a fun book. Enola is cute and clever, a very interesting character to follow along with as she searches for her missing mother and, sort of accidentally, a similarly missing marquess. Some latitute is taken with the Holmes canon, but... not a lot, for all that, especially when one considers that one is looking at Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes from the perspective of a fourteen-year-old girl-- Mycroft comes across as overbearing, and Holmes as distracted and slightly irritable. Som More...

I read the book the Missing Marquess and I would like to tell you how amazing it is in the following! First let me tell you some words or word that you probably don't know what they mean then I will tell you some major and some minor characters.
First is Vocab:
Marquess-this word means English
you will understand it when you read my review.
Now to the major characters:
Enola Holmes-The main character who is looking for her lost mom ; also she has the genes of her older brother Sherlock which help More...

Enola Holmes awakens on her 14th birthday to learn that her mother has vanished, seemingly without a word. Though her two older brothers, Mycroft and Sherlock, think the best place for Enola now is boarding school (where the wearing of corsets is strictly enforced), Enola has other plans. She slips away on her modern bicycle to track down her mother, but on the way becomes involved in another mysterious disappearance – that of the 12 year old Marquess of Basilwether. Enola’s adventures are only More...

I thought the case of the missing marquess was awsome.Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes well what you dont know is that he has a sister named Enola Holmes.In this book,Enola's mom goes missing and Enola sets out and goes to look for her as a widow.She goes on a journey to London. Enola finds out that she is involved in a kiddnaping of a young marquess and must find clues to where her mother can be.Enola has to hurry because people will be looking for her.Will Enloa find her in time to go back home More...

Enola Holmes is Sherlock's equally smart, much more socially competent, much younger sister. She and Sherlock have another brother, Mycroft who is quite set on sending Enola to boarding school to be educated to be a proper lady of high social standing. Unlike Sherlock, Enola uses her intuition and instincts, as well as logic, to try and solve the most desperate mystery of all - Why did her mother disappear on her 14th birthday? Enola creates clever disguises to run away to London to find her mot More...

Excellent YA mystery series opener for fans of YA, mysteries, Sherlock Holmes-themed pastiches, etc.

I had some initial trepidation over reading this (I disliked the precocious Flavia de Luce from Alan Bradley's The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie). However, Enola Holmes is a nice surprise in the guise of period-piece teen detective. If Sherlock Holmes had a baby sister, she would surely be in the mold of Enola - no doubt.

Author Springer has penned a short, satisfying story with authentic deta More...

I have discovered a detective character in children’s literature who I find extremely intriguing! Her name is Enola Holmes. She is the younger sister of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. She lives in London, England in the late 1800′s and resides in the mysteries written by NANCY SPRINGER.

The first in the series is THE CASE OF THE MISSING MARQUESS. In this inaugural installment we meet Enola on her 14th birthday. We later discover that this is the day her mother has chosen to abandon her hom More...

I stumbled across this book at a book fair at the local elementary school. It looked enjoyable (and a quick read) and so I picked it up. The heroine of the story is Enola Holmes, younger sister of the famed Sherlock Holmes. Author Nancy Springer has reimagined the Holmes family, adding a much-younger sister born "indecently late" in her mother's life. As the book begins, Mrs. Holmes has disappeared, having gone out and never returned. To make matters worse, she's left on Enola's 14th birthday. E More...

What a cool idea! Enola Holmes is Sherlock's younger sister. She's clever, defiant, and courageous. When her mother disappears, it's up to Enola to try to figure out what happened. Along the way, she stumbles across another missing person case, and solves that one too!

I loved the setting, and the zesty British style. Enola is my kind of character. She questions and defies the "accepted" roles, and gains a lot of confidence along the way. This is the first book in a series of mysteries. Sherlock More...

Listened to Recorded Books edition narrated by Katherine Kellgren. My favorite audio experience of the year so far. Kellgren is a fantastic narrator who deserves every award that can be bestowed upon her for her narrations.

I loved Enola's character and the twisty plot with the clues all there, but not too obvious. The only thing I missed by listening was having the chance to work the ciphers out for myself. In a way this reminded me of The Westing Game; the heroines are about the same age and eq More...

I wasn't sure that I was going to like this book but it ended up being pretty cute with a nice cliff-hanger.
Enola Holmes is the much younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft. She hasn't seen them in over ten years, assuming it is because her birth was an embarrassment to the family (her mother was fifty at the time). But when her mother disappears, she has to call in the famous pair to help out. She learns that there is some sort of feud between the three of them. Sherlock is called away on a case More...

Review originally posted here.

I really enjoyed Enola. The book is a first person narrative from her point of view. At the beginning she is scared and uncertain. However, she proves to have a brilliant mind capable of strategy and great deception. She learns a lot about life and human nature over the course of this one book and, because she is observant and processes information quickly, she is able to adjust herself accordingly and quickly. She is a girl who fights when she has to but mostly use More...

The Case of the Missing Marquess. This book is by Nancy Springer. The main characters are: Enola, the main character, Tewksbury, the only son of Duke of Tewksbury, who is only 12 years old. Madame Leslie, the perditorian, otherwise the detective. Squeaky and Cut-throat, the captives of Enola ad Lord of Tewksbury. Lestrade, the personal secretary of Sherlock Holmes. The story is fiction and set in London and Ferdenell Hall, the home of the Holmes. This is a brief summary of the book:
1888, London. More...

There's something about the neglected young British girl, usually a squire's daughter, rambling about without company or supervision, that seems to strike hard at literary hearts -- authors' and mine. It must have something to do with the bicycle she's always riding.

This one has slightly a slightly twee premise -- it's about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes's much younger sister, Enola. The author and the character are fond of ciphers and much is made of the fact that Enola spells "alone" backw More...

Women have always upset Sherlock Holmes’s equilibrium (see Irene Adler from the original short stories or Mary Russell from Laurie R. King’s fantastic mystery series). Holmes’s family background is one aspect of his life that has received scant, if any, attention in the various Holmes pastiches that have appeared over the years. In the first Enola Holmes mystery, Nancy Springer dares to imagine a most unconventional mother and much-younger sister for the famed detective, both highly unconvention More...

You know when you've said to yourself "I think I want to read that book" because it sounds like it may be interesting, yet then when the time comes to actually begin reading it you're not as sure as you were previously? Well, that's exactly how it was for me when I picked this book up. As the story begins Enola Holmes celebrates her 14th birthday thinking it a bit odd that her mom is not there to celebrate it with her. The next morning when she gets up and finds that her mother has till not retu More...

A fourteen year old girl named Enola has a missing mother and Enola has the best detives come to her who is Enola's brothers.Enola thinks they will help her find her mother but she had to do it herself, so she sets herself on a dangerous mission to figure out what happened to mother she finds money in tons of places were here mother hid it for her.She always wanted to go to Lodon but she couldn't have she was on a mission!

When i read The Case of the Missing Marquess it reminded me of when anothe More...

This book was recommended to me by several people, in a group here on goodreads, whom have enjoyed the tales of Sherlock Holmes. Always looking for further reading of one of the worlds greatest detectives I figured I would give it a try with an open mind. Considering this series revolves around the much younger sister of Sherlock Holmes I was intrigued to see how this story played out.

Of course Sherlock and Mycroft appeared in this book as they are shocked to learn there mother has disappeared, More...

When Enola Holmes,the little sister of Sherlock Holmes' Mum disappears on her birthday,Enola wants to go find her.She escapes the horrible cluches of boarding school.She runs away to London,figuring her Mum might be hiding in London.But when the marquess of Baislwether,Tweksbury, goes missing,Enola decides to find both her Mum and the Tweksbury.She quickly fleas the rest of the way to London before her brother finds her.Because she left,she had to stop looking for the marquess.Ounce she gets th More...

So I'm a little in love with Enola Holmes. Also Katherine Kellgren, who is brilliant.