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Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess: 1 (Enola Holmes Mystery)

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As early as the first half of the twentieth century, girl sleuths demonstrated the outstanding literary detectives’ qualities of “curiosity, stubbornness, cleverness and a talent for using the perfect piece of truth as a disguise” (Oppermann, 2018, p. Reaching the top of the ladder, I grasped his hand — An awful voice roared a curse such as I had never previously heard or imagined. In 2009, The New York Times reported that Nancy Drew and her blue roadster represented freedom, boldness, and intelligence for many female public figures who grew up in the era before the second feminist wave.

While Sherlock Holmes is characterized as “the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen,” here his lack of “softer passions” (Doyle, 2016/1892, p.That month, Brown and Bradbeer acknowledged their intentions to develop a sequel, which was announced on May 13, 2021. When creating the character of Enola, Springer decided to have her as Holmes' sister, as she did not see it fitting for Holmes to be her father.

The revelation that it was Tewksbury’s grandmother who plotted his murder is a surprise to her, whereas Sherlock Holmes arrives at the solution by using observation and logic. Springing to his feet, Tewksbury all but lifted me off the ladder, flinging me away from the charging red menace.Dodging off the street, I darted up a narrow passageway between two ramshackle boardinghouses, turned past the corner of a cow shed, and fled through the stinking mews behind the buildings, redolent of donkey, goat, goose, and hen. Finally, Enola does not set up an actual detective agency, but only verbally declares herself a detective, a decipherer and finder of lost souls, rather than Sherlock Holmes’s ward, or perhaps Lord Tewksbury’s wife. Her mother has paid no heed to the expectations of how a young lady should be raised, which would normally involve education with a governess, etiquette lessons, wearing appropriate dress and undertaking suitable pastimes. Being long of limb, I like to run, but not tripping over my own confounded clothing, and definitely not on a labyrinth of rotting green-slimed planks.

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