Nancy Springer’s Enola Holmes Mysteries
The books the Netflix films came from, written for readers eight to twelve.
The cleverest Holmes may be the one nobody thought to train, so give the sister the books.
You are, or are shopping for, a reader between eight and twelve.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Sherlock and Mycroft, the period, and a mystery per book.
Changes: the detective and the audience: these are middle-grade novels, and Enola, not Sherlock, solves the case.
Whose story is it?
Enola’s.
How much time does it ask?
Six books in the original series; the first is 240 pages.
Book 1 of 6: The Case of the Missing Marquess, Philomel Books, ages 8–12.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
Common questions
Are the Enola Holmes films based on books?
Yes — on Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes Mysteries, which Netflix credits. The original series is six middle-grade novels, starting with The Case of the Missing Marquess.
More versions: The Complete Novels and Stories, Bantam Classics (two volumes) · The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Oxford World’s Classics (2025) · The Hound of the Baskervilles, Oxford World’s Classics (2023)