“A very young person named Paige Brown read these books and she said to her little sister, Millie Bobby Brown, ‘You might like these,'” Springer said. Soon, “Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown fell in love with the book. “I had to bring those three things together.” “Each book has three plots: the plot of Enola trying to find her mother, the plot of her eluding her brothers who want to put her in a finishing school, and the plot of her finding a missing person,” Springer said. She wrote six installments: “The Case of the Missing Marquess,” “ The Case of the Left-Handed Lady,” “ The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets,” “ The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan,” “ The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline” and “ The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye.” … When I came to hand in the first book, I had butterflies in my stomach. … I don’t do red herrings and that kind of intricacies, so I was very challenged. “I did not consider myself to be really a mystery writer. “At first, it was actually quite frightening,” Springer said. The book was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery in 2007. I could not give Sherlock a daughter, it’s simply impossible, I think the man’s a virgin, but a younger sister, definitely.” “I thought it over and I realized that was the time of Sherlock Holmes. “This editor, ‘I want you to write something set in deepest, darkest London at the time of Jack the Ripper,’ and I said, ‘Huh? Ew,'” Springer said.

Suddenly, her editor suggested that she explore 19th century London. … I was always and forever looking for the female and feminist point of view.”

“I had been working for years with an editor ‘I Am Mordred’ and ‘I Am Morgan le Fay’ - those are Arthurian stories - and we had done the ‘Rowan Hood’ series, which is about Robin Hood’s kid sister. “I remember vividly how it came to me,” Springer said. How did she get the idea to write about Sherlock’s 14-year-old sister? He could play the violin, he could sword fight, he could do jiu-jitsu, he could get down on his hands and knees and trail people like a dog. “He was a high-voltage, genius man of action. “He was a superhero before there were superheroes,” Springer said. Not only could Sherlock solve mysteries, he was a sort of renaissance man. The dog did nothing he says, ‘That’s the peculiar thing.'” “That’s the one in which Holmes mentions the peculiar thing that the dog did in the nighttime. “It’s very hard to choose, but because I am crazy about horses, I do like ‘Silver Blaze,'” Springer said. What was her personal favorite Holmes story?

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The missing marquess