Number nine of Nancy Springer’s Enola Holmes series finds Enola on her own, but also on good terms with her prickly brothers. One day Rudyard Kipling bursts outrageously into the office of fictitious Dr. Leslie Ragostin, a.k.a. Enola Holmes, claiming his best friend, Wolcott Balestier, is missing. Kipling quickly, and nasty to boot, refuses to hire Enola and instead goes to Sherlock. That doesn’t stop our heroine from searching for Wolcott anyway.
This is such a fun series to read, regardless of whether you are a fan of Sherlock Holmes. It’s also educational because the author incorporates such details to make the reader feel they are a part of that world. Its essentially a time machine novel. This particular novel takes the audience into the scientific world of rabies and how inoculations began. While not graphic (thank goodness!), it is informative.
Overall, I rate this novel 4 out of 5 stars.
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