Of course, more than anything, she'd like to find her own mother-a theme that runs through the series. There she crafts a new identity for herself, becoming what she calls a "perditorian," a private detective specializing in finding lost people. But Enola, who's just as bright as you'd expect Sherlock's sister to be, takes to the streets of London instead. Nancy Springer has envisioned a much younger sister for Holmes, a fourteen-year-old girl he and Mycroft try to pop into a boarding school when their mother disappears. King introduced Mary Russell to the great detective for adult readers. The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye is a book from Springer's reinvention of the Sherlock Holmes stories, part of a series that's the best new take on Holmes since Laurie R. (See my neo-Austen riff which includes his book.) So I'm happy to see that various authors have found ways of reinventing girl-power fiction from the Victorian/Edwardian era, and I'm not even talking about Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. While I'm not the world's biggest fan of historical fiction, I'm definitely a Jane Austen fan, and I know I'm not alone in this.
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