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The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes #1)
by Nancy Springer 

I watched the Netflix movie first. Not because of Sherlock Holmes—one of my first and most enduring book hero loves—but because of Henry Cavill. I am shallow like that. He is way too pretty to be Sherlock Holmes. Anyway… back to his younger sister Enola. Which, spelled backwards, reads Alone. 

She lives with her mother on the Holmes estate, running pretty wild for a 14-year old girl of that time period. When her mother disappears, Enola decides that it is up to her to find her. Mycroft and Sherlock are not helpful and want to send her off to boarding school instead, so she learns to behave like a young lady. Enola disagrees, obviously, and decides to take matters into her own hands. She runs off to London in search of her mother…

I liked it. I suppose I might pick up #2 of this book series at some point. The audio narration was good. 

They did quite a good job with the TV adaptation, although it unfolds quite differently and there is a lot more Henry Sherlock in the movie than in the book.