And with each solved clue, she finds a fat wad of cash. However, in Enola's birthday gift are clues. Not so much.Īnd at first, it looks as though she's absconded with all the money and taken off to parts unknown. She was supposed to have all kinds of things like gardeners, horse stables, and a governess for Enola. The gist is that Enola's mom disappears on her 14th birthday and it turns out that she's been fleecing Mycroft for money. But Enola herself is only 14 so there may still be a romance in the future. The Missing Marquess isn't so much a young love interest for Miss Holmes as he is a 12 year old boy with an attitude. In other words, Enola's mom doesn't come off quite as cool in this first story as she does in the show.Īnother difference would be that in the tv show, it's mostly Mycroft that comes off as a sexist douchebag and Sherlock is the one who is secretly helping (or at least turning a blind eye) to his little sister's hijinks. Instead of taking Enola with her, she gives her clues to a small fortune that will help her start a new life if she chooses to run away, as well. Quite different from the tv show (which I think is superior), but as long as you know what you're getting, this is pretty fun in its own way.Įnola's mom disappears (like the show) but in the book, it appears that she has left because she's sick and tired of being told what to do by the men in her life (Sherlock and Mycroft). In 2007 she surprised her friends and herself by moving with her second husband to an isolated area of the Florida panhandle, where the birdwatching is spectacular and where, when fishing, she occasionally catches an alligator. She spent the next forty-six years in Pennsylvania, raising two children (Jonathan, now 38, and Nora, 34), writing, horseback riding, fishing, and birdwatching.

DARK LIE, recently released from NAL, is her first venture into mass-market psychological suspense.īorn in Montclair, New Jersey, Nancy Springer moved with her family to Gettysburg, of Civil War fame, when she was thirteen.

Nancy Springer has passed the fifty-book milestone, having written that many novels for adults, young adults and children, in genres including mythic fantasy, contemporary fiction, magical realism, horror, and mystery - although she did not realize she wrote mystery until she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America two years in succession.

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