The case of the Missing
Marques: an Enola Holmes Mystery
Nancy Springer
Do any of you readers like Sherlock Holmes
mysteries? Well, have you people heard that he has an older brother (just a
tiny bit older) and a sister who is ten years younger than him? Well, by the
way he does. His sister’s name is Enola, which, spelled backwards is alone. Do any of your names spelled
backwards mean anything? I f yes then tell me what. If no, don’t worry. I’m
Airam J.
Enola’s mom leaves Ferdinand estate,
where she lives with Enola, and their three servants. (Don’t worry about the
servants, they are treated practically like family.) When Enola’s brothers find
out, they come to the estate. Mycroft is confused because Enola’s mom wanted
payment for butlers, maids, stable boys and seamstresses. When he finds none of
the above at the estate he is very mad. Sherlock says that she wanted money for
her escape. Enola can’t believe that her mother left. Then Sherlock leaves to
go back to London and Mycroft wants to put Enola in a boarding school for young
ladies. But Enola doesn’t want to wear a corset, bust enhancer and other things
that I won’t mention here (you’re welcome gentlemen). She decides to escape.
Her baggage—she hides in her ladies undergarments. When the carriage taking her
to the boarding school stops at the graveyard, so she can supposedly say
good-bye to her father, she takes her bike and escapes. She knows her brother,
the legendary Sherlock Holmes, will be able to find her pretty easily, so she
goes where her brothers will least expect her to go, to London, right under
their noses. She meets up with another runaway – a boy who got really sick of
his mom’s baby treatment. Together they escape from Squeaky and Cutter, two
cutthroats. They pay a lady to hide them. Then Enola’s new friend (without even
knowing it) distracts her brother. Enola escapes once again. Later she once
again changes her image. She learns that her mother is with the gypsies. She
plans to go find her in the Spring.
This book is really good. I especially think
that girls should read it. In fact, this next paragraph that I’m going to write
is JUST for girls, so if you’re male, just skip it.
Hey, ladies! I really think you should
read this book. I mean, how many of you ever read a book, like a Sherlock
Holmes mystery and think “Hey, what the heck, where are all the female
characters?” I think that all the time. This book is really good and its about
a girl!
Okay, hi everybody. And now… drumroll
please… bye everybody!
