Great mystery.

Reading this, you really have to admire Enola Holmes. She is a brave a resourceful character who manages to carve her own path in a society that is less accepting of fourteen year-old girls than our own.

This turned out to be a fun, breezy, fast-paced mystery story. Enola Holmes is Sherlock Holmes' much younger sister and she too is resourceful, clever and unconventional. I really enjoyed the Victorian setting and details, but the book is not dated and ponderous but very engaging and lively and will appeal to modern middle-grade children who like good mysteries. This is the first book in a series of six and I look forward to reading the rest of this series.

When her mother disappears on her 14th birthday, her older brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, visit their family estate to investigate. They solve nothing and threaten to send her, their younger sister, Enola Holmes, to boarding school. Taking matters into her own hands, Enola Holmes runs away to London, intent on solving her mother’s disappearance on her own. On the way she dons many disguises, stumbles across a second mystery, puzzles through ciphers, and navigates the rat-infested streets of 19th century London. Springer’s Case of the Missing Marquess is a fast paced and light-hearted mystery. It will be particularly appealing to those who enjoy books based in Victorian London, Sherlock Holmes, piecing together puzzles, or all three. The heroine, Enola Holmes is strong, independent, and intelligent. Springer delivers the ciphers in such a way that both Enola and reader can attempt to solve them together, an added treat to an already enjoyable adventure.

Picked this up in a bookstore, flipped through it and started reading and then I had to buy it. This first adventure of Sherlock Holmes' smarter sister (or maybe not smarter, just differently smart and definitely underestimated) is a fun little book. Enola is a tough cookie whose mother has disappeared and whose two older brothers, Mycroft and Sherlock, estranged from their mother, aren't much help. In fact, they want to send her to boarding school to become a "lady." She rebels and runs away to find her mother, getting sidetracked by the disappearance of a young marquess and finding her purpose in life.

I loved this book! While it's not about Sherlock Holmes specifically, it's about his younger sister Enola ('alone' spelled backwards) Nancy

Excellent book for those young readers or tweens who enjoy Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This one is about Enola Holmes, Sherlock's younger sister. Well-written, this author has other titles (I am Morgan lefay, etc) and I'll definitely read them!