The Enola Holmes Mysteries
The Enola Holmes Mysteries is a young adult fiction series of detective novels by American author Nancy Springer. In 2020, the literary series was adapted into a film with Millie Bobby Brown in the title role and Henry Cavill playing Sherlock Holmes. There are currently six books in the series, all written by Springer from 2006–2010.
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The Enola Holmes Mysteries is a young adult fiction series of detective novels by American author Nancy Springer. Enola is the 14-year-old sister of an already-famous Sherlock Holmes, twenty years her senior. When their mother disappears, Enola’s brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, decide to send her to a finishing school against her will. Instead, with the aid of her mother who had provided hidden funds and an elaborate cipher for her daughter to communicate with her,. Enola runs away to London where she establishes a clandestine private detective career specializing in missing persons investigations. In 2020, the literary series was adapted into a film with Millie Bobby Brown in the title role and Henry Cavill playing Sherlock Holmes. There are currently six books in the series, all written by Springer from 2006–2010. This pastiche series borrows characters and settings from the established canon of Holmes, but the Enola character is Springer’s creation and specific to this series. The first book, The Case of the Missing Marquess, and the fifth, The case of the Cryptic Crinoline, were nominated for the Edgar Awards for Best Juvenile Mystery in 2007 and 2010, respectively. The series is set in Victorian England and features Enola solving numerous missing persons cases, including a rescue of Dr.
Dr. John Watson. The main character’s name is set on the one of a town near where she resided at the time. Springer researched about Victorian era England, both from historical research and through coloring books, which, according to her, it helps \”visualize the details\” when writing. Sherlock’s status as a bachelor and being \”clueless about women\” also played a role on the creation of Enola, as it allowed Springer to write a character that could blindside him time after time. The age discrepancy between Enola and Sherlock is explained as Enola being a \”mistake child\”. Springer, too, had an artist for a mother, who was talented with painting watercolor flowers. She herself is much younger than her two older brothers, who left for college before she reached puberty, and had a scrawny, bony, gawky tree-climbing tomboy with hair that needed to be washed. She also has an early-onset form of dementia, which led to her mother spending less time with her after she turned 14 years old. When Enola calls on her elder brothers to recapture her, they dismiss her as unimportant. Upon arriving in London, she finds a magical place that seems to be the secret place of a young Viscount, Lord Tewksbury.
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