When 12-year-old Agatha's father dies, she is booted from the Gosswater estate and sent to live with her newly revealed biological father who is a farmer and stonemason. This gothic children's novel has it all! There's the huge English estate, the death of a father that reveals a secret paternity, an evil cousin, a missing priceless family heirloom known as the 'Queen's Stone,' a blind midwife who holds the secret, and of course the wonderful, eerie atmosphere. THE GHOST OF MIDNIGHT LAKE by Lucy Strange ( Anyone who has been to Paris, knows that would be a dire situation, indeed!) Ages 9 and up. Like Enola Holmes, Nell gets drawn into a second mystery–the suspicious contamination of baked goods at boulangeries across the city. Once in Paris, Nell teams up with Xavier, a bellhop at a luxury hotel. 12-year-old Nell has left her English boarding school in an attempt to find out what happened to her beloved nanny, 'Pear,' whom her unpleasant parents dismissed just before Nell went off to school. This wonderful historical mystery takes readers to 1960s Paris. A thrilling mystery with unique characters and a healthy dose of snappy humor. Myrtle's detective work takes off when she becomes convinced that her neighbor was the victim of foul play. Encouraged by her father and governess, the clever, likable, but very quirky Myrtle loves her gadgets and keeping up with all the latest crime-fighting research. The unconventional, twelve-year-old Myrtle, lives with her prosecutor father in Victorian England. BunceĪnyone who wants Victorian detective books similar to Enola Holmes will love Myrtle. PREMEDITATED MYRTLE (series) by Elizabeth C. ( 'Alone,' spelled backwards.) Ages 10 and up. While characters from Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes books appear in the novels, Springer invented the plucky Enola. When her mother disappears, Enola sets out to discover what happened, and stumbles into another mystery surrounding a young aristocrat, which she solves, besting her brothers. THE CASE OF THE MISSING MARQUESS (series) by Nancy Springerįirst, if you've only seen the Enola Holmes Netflix movie, read the series! The movie is based on the first book, The Case of the Missing Marquess. Let's get started with the reading recommendations, or as Enola herself would say, 'The game is afoot!'

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