The Case of the Missing Marquess

This follows the Netflix remake very closely, which I happened to have watched first before I read the book (I hadn’t even realized it came from a book.) Very entertaining and well-written though!

The story follows Enola, Sherlock Holmes’s much younger sister, who finds that her mother has disappeared. Nobody (including Sherlock and his older brother, Mycroft) expect much from either mother or daughter, as in that society, nobody thought much of the intelligence of women. (There is a definite feminist angle here, but it didn’t bother me as much as it would in a book set in modern times. Back then, it was historically accurate.) Enola knows that her mother loved wordplay, and as she follows the clues her mother left for her, she’s forced to do plenty of her own sleuthing, invoking the name of her famous older brother and encountering a runaway titled young boy along the way. (In the book, the boy was significantly younger than Enola, though in the film, he’s a love interest.)

I don’t know if I’ll read on in the series–not sure if I’m *that* into the concept, but this one was a fun read.

My rating: ****

Language: none

Sexual content: none

Violence: none that I can recall (and if it was there, it wasn’t significant)

Political content: just the feminist thing

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