{"id":767,"date":"2009-09-22T22:07:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T02:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2010-02-16T23:54:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T03:54:12","slug":"review-of-the-case-of-the-missing-marquess-by-nancy-springer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Case of the Missing Marquess, by Nancy Springer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/missing_marquess.jpg\" alt=\"missing_marquess\" title=\"missing_marquess\" width=\"144\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-768\" \/><em>The Case of the Missing Marquess<\/p>\n<p>An Enola Holmes Mystery<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Nancy Springer<\/p>\n<p>Philomel Books, 2006.  216 pages.<br \/>\nStarred Review<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Standouts2010.html\">Sonderbooks Stand-out 2010<\/a>: #5 Other Children&#8217;s Fiction<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long heard about the <em>Enola Holmes Mysteries<\/em>.  I&#8217;m so glad I finally got around to reading one!<\/p>\n<p>This is the first story of Sherlock Holmes&#8217; little sister, Enola.  She&#8217;s something of an embarrassment to the family.  She&#8217;s much younger than Sherlock and Mycroft and doesn&#8217;t act like a proper young lady at all.<\/p>\n<p>When Enola&#8217;s mother disappears on her fourteenth birthday, Sherlock and Mycroft arrive to take the estate in hand, and of course get Enola settled in a nice boarding school to become a proper young lady.  Enola has other ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Enola is resourceful, and her mother has even left clues to help her.  Setting out on her own, in disguise, can Enola elude her brother, the world&#8217;s greatest detective?  Along the way, Enola encounters a case of her own to solve, and she has insights that even great detectives don&#8217;t have access to.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll definitely be reading more Enola Holmes stories.  She&#8217;s feisty, smart, and resourceful.  Her perspective on the mysteries around her is refreshingly clear-sighted.  And she can outwit Sherlock Holmes!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0142409332\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/missing_marquess.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/missing_marquess.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Case of the Missing Marquess An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer Philomel Books, 2006. 216 pages. Starred Review Sonderbooks Stand-out 2010: #5 Other Children&#8217;s Fiction I&#8217;ve long heard about the Enola Holmes Mysteries. I&#8217;m so glad I finally got around to reading one! This is the first story of Sherlock Holmes&#8217; little sister, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,32,6,31,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-historical","category-mystery","category-stand-outs","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}