Enola Holmes Lives Here

Pictured is the devious means by which Sherlock Holmes finally locates his missing sister in THE CASE OF THE GYPSY GOOD-BYE:  An Enola Holmes mystery.  Yes, it is Reginald Collie!

Up until lately, this was the last of the six books in the Enola Holmes mystery series.  But rumor has it that the author is working on more.  Stay tuned...

From THE CASE OF THE CRYPTIC CRINOLINE:  AN ENOLA HOLMES MYSTERY, speaking of Florence Nightingale: "she awaited me: a plump, sweet, smiling old-fashioned beauty sitting up in a large bed richly arrayed.  Her hair, parted in the centre and smoothed back in the simple manner of her youth...as if to show off the impeccable sheen and symmetry of her hair, she wore an odd sort of white kerchief that tied beneath her chin and lavished a cascade of lace from the crown of her head to her velveteen bed-jacket."

"Enola."  Sherlock addressed me with as much emotion as one was ever likely to perceive in him.  "My cherished sister, selfishly I have become quite addicted to you, your flair -- the zest of never knowing -- truly, I cannot wait to see what on Earth you do next."

The last novel in the Enola Holmes mystery series is THE CASE OF THE GYPSY GOODBYE.  A Very Important Missing Person is to be found in one of the Gypsy vans pictured.  I myself (Nancy Springer, the author) spent a week in the company of Gypsies when I was fifteen, so I thought Enola might appreciate their larcenous company too.

#FlorenceNightingale #enolaholmes #mystery #Victorian #CrimeanWar #sherlockholmes #JVNLA

This, "in the most brutal handwriting I had ever seen, angular and bristling and penned with weapon force, each stroke a club at one end and a rapier at the other," was the mysterious message that terrorized Enola Holmes's landlady, Mrs. Tupper.

In THE CASE OF THE PECULIAR PINK FAN:  AN ENOLA HOLMES MYSTERY, Lady Cecily is concealed in an orphanage, where the chapel is to be used for her forced marriage to her toadlike cousin.  Enola disguises herself as a waif and helps Lady Cecily escape in disguise as -- what else -- an orphan, hair cut short.  #Enolaholmes #mystery #lit #Victorian #sherlockholmes #JVNLA

And so on and on and on.  See THE CASE OF THE PECULIAR PINK FAN:  AN ENOLA HOLMES MYSTERY.  #enolaholmes #sherlockholmes #Victorian #mystery #lit #JVNLA

In THE CASE OF THE PECULIAR PINK FAN:  llAN ENOLA HOLMES MYSTERY, Lady Cecily's enigmatic fan is made quite simply of paper.  But the topmost fan above is made of gilded, sequined carved wood and tulle silk.  Fancy fans were made of lace, silk, leather, feathers, parchment, ivory, wood, snakeskin and alligator!  Properly tapped, snapped, twirled, or fluttered, fans conveyed signals, possessing a language all their own

I understood her signal at once:  Caution.  We are being watched.  The language of fans had been invented by young lovers attempting to court in the presence of chaperones, and in my innocent childhood days at Ferndell Hall, under the wry tutelage of my mother, I had often been diverted by watching.

Cover art:  THE CASE OF THE PECULIAR PINK FAN:  AN ENOLA HOLMES MYSTERY.  French, Portuguese, Japanese, USA hardcover, in which the fan can be seen in the hand of the escaping "orphan." #enolaholmes #mystery #lit #Victorian #JVNLA

In this Enola Holmes adventure, Watson is maliciously confined to a lunatic asylum.  Hence the lovely but lunatic black&white picture.  Both Enola and I would love to know more about it. 

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THE CASE OF THE BIZARRE BOUQUETS:  AN ENOLA HOLMES MYSTERY