An interesting and engaging mystery, with an intelligent and independent heroine in the personage of Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of the famed Sherlock Holmes. More or less abandoned by her eccentric sixty-something mother on her 14th birthday, Enola's carefree and largely reactionary life,...
A take-off on Sherlock Holmes. There was a bit too much Message for my taste. And I would love to have a novel set in the Victorian era where the heroine is fine with corsets and sewing. Seriously. Not everyone hated them and rebelled. [Aug. 2009]