The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline

De: Nancy Springer

Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren

Don’t miss Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess! A Netflix original movie starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, and Helena Bonham Carter!

Enola Holmes—younger sister to Sherlock Holmes—is back on another case!

Enola Holmes’s landlady, Mrs. Tupper, is the closest thing Enola has to family these days, besides her occasional run-ins with her brother Sherlock. Even though Mrs. Tupper is nearly deaf and can barely cook, she’s an endearing presence as Enola longs for her absent mother. So imagine her horror when Enola comes home to find Mrs. Tupper kidnapped! Who would take her, and why? And what does Florence Nightingale have to do with it? From the master of mystery Nancy Springer, here’s another absorbing adventure for our award-winning, unstoppable heroine, Enola Holmes.

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Full Disclosure: I'm an adult!

As a woman who raised children to read for pleasure during the Harry Potter craze, I've always tried to read things my kids (and now grandkids) have been interested in. This is a well-written series with excellent flow. The performance is equally excellent!

Nightingale's Eyes

The abrupt kidnapping of Enola's landlady picks up the mystery of her history in the Crimean War and meeting "The Lady of the Lamp" aka Florence Nightingale and a oddly threatening note of "Birds" and messages that finds Enola reaching out to Florence Nightingale and the truth. I found this a most refreshing adventure mystery as at the end of it there's some hope of a reunion of the Holmes family, but a bitter sadness that to get there before - Enola will have to lose her home and the mother-like figure of her landlady.

Engaging and delightful

I love the character that Nancy Springer has created and all of her amazing adventures!

I grew up on Sherlock Holmes

If you could sum up The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline in three words, what would they be?

Clever, fun, and intellegent

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

It is always satisfying when at the end of a mystery of any ilk the detective sums up 'how it were done' so to speak. The Enola Character is wonderfully like her famous older brother, yet like the Wicked series this is a fun look at things from another perspective. Very believable and with the right 'feel'. She lets you in on 'how it were done' with the same deductive reasoning we associate with Sherlock. Throw in the family drama and it all comes together as a fast and fun read.

Any additional comments?

I have read many of the titles in this series and they are all good. Sort of a Jane Eyre meets murder on the orient express. It avoids the kind of silly kid behavior of characters written for younger audiences that I have sometimes seen. Also it paints a historically accurate picture of the London of the day. Definitely a story written for the teen and tween audience but written with intelligence.

Childhood Favorite

Read it when I was young and love getting to hear the familiar story while I do my tasks. Performance is great!