A charming younger YA mystery that's rather short on the mystery and long on the vocabulary — but filled with plucky fun and endearing interactions between Enola and her older brother Sherlock.


Topics and tropes: women's rights (or lack thereof), women's friendships, sibling relationships, coded language, Victorian era fashion and food, socioeconomic status; twins imitating each other, secret messages hidden in plain sight, sleuthing in disguise, men behaving badly, horses behaving badly, narcissistic art, different paths to the same goal
Content notes: death (off page, backstory), Victorian area sexism (espoused by both our hero Sherlock, various servants and villagers, and to the worse degree, our villain), detainment, wrongful commitment to a mental institution,