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In her follow-up to The Case of the Missing Marquess, which received four starred reviews, two-time Edgar Award winner Nancy Springer brings us back to the danger and intrigue of Victorian London as she continues the adventures of one of the wittiest and most exciting new heroines in today’s literature.

"A young girl who is empowered, capable, and smart...the Enola Holmes book series convey an impactful message that you can do anything if you set your mind to it, and it does so in an exciting and adventurous way."--Millie Bobby Brown Enola Holmes is back! Nancy Springer''s nationally bestselling series and breakout Netflix sensation returns to beguile readers young and old in Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche.Enola Holmes is the much younger sister of her more famous brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft. But she has all the wits, skills, and sleuthing inclinations of them both. At fifteen, she''s an independent young woman--after all, her name spelled backwards reads ''alone''--and living on her own in London. When a young professional woman, Miss Letitia Glover, shows up on Sherlock''s doorstep, desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister, it is Enola who steps up. It seems her sister, the former Felicity Glover, married the Earl of Dunhench and per a curt note from the Earl, has died. But Letitia Glover is convinced this isn''t the truth, that she''d know--she''d feel--if her twin had died.The Earl''s note is suspiciously vague and the death certificate is even more dubious, signed it seems by a John H. Watson, M.D. (who denies any knowledge of such). The only way forward is for Enola to go undercover--or so Enola decides at the vehement objection of her brother. And she soon finds out that this is not the first of the Earl''s wives to die suddenly and vaguely--and that the secret to the fate of the missing Felicity is tied to a mysterious black barouche that arrived at the Earl''s home in the middle of the night. To uncover the secrets held tightly within the Earl''s hall, Enola is going to require help--from Sherlock, from the twin sister of the missing woman, and from an old friend, the young Viscount Tewkesbury, Marquess of Basilwether!Enola Holmes returns in her first adventure since the hit Netflix movie brought her back on the national bestseller lists, introducing a new generation to this beloved character and series.

In this thrilling new adventure, Enola Holmes must outwit her famous brother Sherlock to save a young baronet''s daughter from her father''s devious schemes.Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade follows the intrepid young detective, now living independently in London and working as a scientific perditorian (a finder of persons and things). Despite the societal constraints on women in Victorian England, Enola is determined to help her friend Lady Cecily Alastair, who has run away from home once again.After being turned away at the Alastair estate, Enola takes Lady Cecily to her secret office, only to be found by none other than Sherlock Holmes himself. Hired by Lady Cecily''s mother to find the missing girl, Sherlock is surprised to find his sister involved in the case. But before he can return Lady Cecily to her father, she disappears again.Now, Enola must race against time to find Lady Cecily before her secret is revealed. With the help of her keen instincts and quick wit, Enola navigates the dangerous streets of London, determined to unravel the mystery and save her friend. The game is afoot in this page-turning Enola Holmes mystery filled with intrigue, suspense, and a dash of humor.

Nancy Springer''s nationally bestselling series and breakout Netflix sensation is back! In this short story, Enola Holmes is on the case when a young porter - the boy in buttons - disappears without a trace.Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft, owns a building in the heart of 19th century London, a place she uses under pseudonyms to front for her investigative work. Employed there is a porter - Joddy, a young boy in a uniform festooned with buttons - whose even younger brother substitutes for him when he''s sick. But Paddy disappears after one day at the job and Enola Holmes is alerted to this by the still ill Joddy.Determined to find the missing porter, Enola travels to the rough part of London where the boys live and starts searching Aldgate Pump area for the missing boy. When she finds the missing buttons - but not the boy - she decides that drastic action is essential if she''s to save the missing boy.

Nancy Springer''s nationally bestselling series and breakout Netflix sensation beguiles readers young and old with Enola Holmes''s latest adventure. In May of 1890, Enola Holmes is finally fully on her own and, no longer hiding from her older brothers Sherlock and Mycroft, attending classes and occasionally pursuing her chosen profession as a scientific perditorian, a finder of lost things and people.Wolcott Balestier, the representative of an American book publisher, arrived in London on a singular mission—to contract with English authors for their latest works. When Balestier disappears on the streets of London one day, his great friend—Rudyard Kipling—bursts into Enola''s office looking for help in finding him. Brash and unwilling to hire a young woman, instead he turns to Sherlock Holmes. Convinced that evil has befallen Balestier, at the hands of rival American publishers who pirate the works of English authors, he sets the elder Holmes on the trail. But Enola is not one to accept defeat, especially not to her brother, and sets off on her own—determined to learn the truth behind the disappearance of the young American. Can book publishing truly be so ruthless and deadly or can the missing man be rescued from his apparent fate and returned to his friends and loved ones?The redoubtable Enola is determined to do just that, even if it means working with her brother Sherlock!