Enola’s cleverness is wonderful to read, with her turning particular feminine aspects-the flowers, a restrictive corset, the expectation that she’ll do as she’s told-into the tools of her escape. The floral theme is reflected in the text, with Mycroft’s school choices described as turning girls into “houseplants” and Mycroft bemoaning Enola’s plans to “vegetate” in the country (almost a character on its own) by herself. Instead, she runs away to London in disguise, aided by her mother’s coded messages and the language of flowers. Upon notifying her much older brothers Mycroft and Sherlock, who haven’t visited for ten years, she’s told she will be sent to boarding school to become a proper young lady. On her 14th birthday, her mother disappears. This graphic novel from IDW’s EuroComics imprint adapts the first.Įnola has been living with her mother, Lady Eudora, in the country. An Enola Holmes Mystery: The Case of the Missing Marquessīy Serena Blasco, based on the novel by Nancy Springerįrom 2006-2010, Nancy Springer wrote six YA mysteries about Enola Holmes, the younger sister of Sherlock.
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