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    The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
    The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
    The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
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    The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets

    Written by Nancy Springer

    Narrated by Katherine Kellgren

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    About this audiobook

    Don’t miss Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess! A Netflix original movie starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, and Helena Bonham Carter!

    Enola Holmes—younger sister to Sherlock Holmes—is back on another case!

    Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes’s right-hand man, so when he goes missing, it’s a shock. Even Sherlock hasn’t the slightest clue as to where he could be. Enola is intrigued but wary; she’s still hiding from her older brothers, and getting involved could prove to be
    disastrous. But Enola can’t help but investigate, especially when she learns that a bizarre bouquet—with flowers all symbolizing death—has been delivered to the Watson residence. Enola knows she must act quickly, but can she find Dr. Watson in time?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 7, 2008
    ISBN9781436116657
    The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
    Author

    Nancy Springer

    Nancy Springer is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including the Enola Holmes and Rowan Hood series and a plethora of novels for all ages, spanning fantasy, mystery, magic realism, and more. She received the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for Larque on the Wing and the Edgar Award for her juvenile mysteries Toughing It and Looking for Jamie Bridger, and she has been nominated for numerous other honors. Springer currently lives in the Florida Panhandle, where she rescues feral cats and enjoys the vibrant wildlife of the wetlands.

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    • 3/5
      ***MINOR SPOILER***

      The story was enjoyable. The only thing I don't buy is that Sherlock Holmes wouldn't understand the floral language. Given that in canon Holmes gives the famous speech about how flowers invoke hope, it wouldn't make sense for him to overlook the meaning of the particular flowers.
    • 5/5
      This narrator is INCREDIBLE! I'm blown away by how she did so many different voices and accents, so thrilling!! I'm so glad she did the whole series! Great job!!!
    • 5/5
      In this third Enola Holmes middle grade mystery, Enola is hunting for a missing Dr. Watson. Of course, she also has to keep herself hidden from her older brothers Mycroft and Sherlock so that they won't be able to force her into the mold of a proper Victorian young lady.This mystery plays into Enola's strengths as she gets one major clue in the form of a bouquet of flowers delivered to Mrs. Watson in the aftermath of Dr. Watson's disappearance. The language of flowers is one that many young women of her social class are quite familiar with. In fact, she and her mother sometimes communicate in it when sending messages to each other via the Personals columns of London newspapers. But it is a language that is completely foreign to confirmed bachelors like Sherlock and Mycroft.This story gives a really good look at the way London was in 1898 with the vast gulf between the rich and the poor. It also says a lot about the lack of rights for women at the time when it was easier for a man to have his wife committed to an insane asylum than it was to divorce her. The story has exciting bits as Enola has to elude both her brothers and the villains and winds up climbing over London rooftops. It also has bits where Enola comes to terms with the mother who has abandoned her. Despite her intelligence and independence, I can't help but feel sorry for Enola who longs for a family and people to care about her and who has only an absent mother and brothers with preconceived notions of what would be good for her to fill the gap.I am eager to read more of Enola's adventures.
    • 5/5
      this book is exceptional
      I loved it
      I feel the narrator is really trained for this
      thank you so much
    • 4/5
      It seems that Dr Watson finds himself mistakingly held in a mental hospital under a false name. Despite his pleas to be released his disappearance draws concerns from Sherlock. Enola disguises herself once again to help with locating the missing Dr Watson. She gets her first clue when she visits Mrs Watson and sees a particular floral bouquet which contained flowers with sinister meanings. She is successful with her efforts to assist her brothers in locating the Dr Watson.
    • 3/5
      Not quite as good as the first two novels in the series but still a very strong entry. The story is about Watson and his wife and Enola's dysfunctional family. I have to agree with Sherlock that he wishes that Enola would trust him, but I can also understand why Enola can't. The real only problem with this novel is that it's just to short, if the story was expanded it would have been a strong four star book.
    • 2/5
      Enola is frozen with indecision, wondering what new identity to create for herself now that she thinks Sherlock might soon uncover "Ivy Meshle," when an article about the disappearance of Dr. John Watson catches her eye. No one, not even the famed detective Sherlock Holmes, knows what has happened to him. Although it puts her at risk of being captured by her older brothers, Enola knows she must do all she can to help Watson.Readers know from the start that Watson has somehow been mistaken for someone else and committed to an insane asylum. The question is how it happened, and whether Enola, Sherlock, or both can find and free him.I continue to read this series for the weird Holmes family dynamic, which may seem a little odd since they're almost never in the same room together. There's Enola, who desperately wants unambiguous displays of love and affection from her mother. She idolizes Sherlock but also fears what he and Mycroft would do if they tracked her down - she doesn't want to be trapped at boarding school and forced to live whatever sort of life they think is proper for a 14-year-old girl. There's Sherlock, who wants to be a good older brother but doesn't understand Enola at all (although maybe he's starting to?). And then there's Enola's mother, whose primary contact with Enola is through rare personal ads in the newspaper, written in code.And also Mycroft, but he's barely had any on-page presence since the first book. I do think it's interesting that he apparently has a better grasp of his mother and Enola's shared code than Sherlock does, though.The biggest problem with this series is that Springer's Sherlock is useless. He cannot track down his 14-year-old sister, despite having been in her presence multiple times. And in this particular book he can't even track down his long-time friend, Dr. Watson, supposedly because something as feminine as bouquets and flowers doesn't interest him enough for him to notice that there's something odd about one of the bouquets that was delivered to Mrs. Watson.Granted, Enola got lucky. If one of the people involved had watched their mouth a little better, she'd have hit a dead end in her investigation. And she was super lucky that she wasn't caught while snooping and trying to get a little more information - I found that part to be incredibly difficult to believe.This is a mystery series, and yet the mysteries continue to be weak and terrible. It's a shame, because I like Enola and find her strained family relationships to be interesting. I'll probably continue on because the books are quick reads and I really want to get to the point where Enola and Sherlock finally meet and talk to each other as themselves. (Which is what it would take for him to recognize her. I seriously cannot believe how unobservant this Sherlock is.)Extras:An excerpt from the next book, The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan.
    • 4/5
      Enola continues her clandestine career as Perditorian, a professional seeker of lost persons. In this case, it is Dr. Watson that she seeks. Still an engaging and intrepid teenager, she manages the task while adroitly avoiding her still seeking older brothers.
    • 4/5
      I am so enjoying this series. Can’t wait for the film series with Millie Bobby Brown.
    • 5/5
      The only problem I have with this book is that I would have loved for it to last longer. Such a good story, once again and the details of the case were actually really chilling. I absolutely adore Enola. I can't wait to read more books in this series, what a find!
    • 4/5
      Every one of these books gets better. I love the fact that the cases Enola takes on aren't things like missing bicycles or lost pets, but serious things. Fantastic.
    • 5/5
      The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets by Nancy Springer opens with John Watson going missing. Enola, meanwhile, feels she must close up shop because her brothers have gotten to close to finding her. She has no desire to let them run her life. But there's a new threat she needs to think about, the mad house, where women are being sent who don't play by Victorian rules.Despite her own fears and joblessness, Enola decides to investigate Watson's disappearance. With the help of the disguise shop she knows Sherlock uses, she creates a new persona for herself and sets out to befriend Mrs. Watson.The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets takes its name from a strange set of flowers delivered to Mrs. Watson's home upon the disappearance of her husband. Although Enola had a rather Bohemian childhood, she and her mother did enjoy sharing messages with the language of flowers. That shared hobby comes in handy here and she sees a message that her brother first misses.In so many of the books set in Victorian times I've read the women are presented in a very narrow spectrum. They are prostitutes, aristocrats, maids or flower sellers. Enola's London has many more types of women, up and down the entire social ladder. These women make London seem more real and certainly more interesting.And sometimes, more dangerous. Enola's adventures in this third volume are more dangerous than the typical tween mystery I've read. Her life is threatened. She gets hurt. Much of what happens to her is her own misjudgment. It's both shocking and refreshing to find a tween protagonist who is vulnerable.
    • 4/5
      I am really enjoying Enola's mysteries, and getting into more details about use of disguise was interesting.
    • 5/5
       Love this series, lots of fun=)
    • 4/5
      When Enola's older brother's best friend disappears, Enola is determined to locate him even though the search may compromise her secret identity. The search for Dr. Watson leads our intrepid detective into London's steamy underside and finds her caught in a deranged plot twenty years in the making. The third in Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes mystery series, The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets includes all the mainstays of Enola's adventures: secret codes, cunning disguises, and a midnight dash across the rooftops. She worries about her absent mother and spars with her overbearing brothers Sherlock and Mycroft while maintaining her cover as Ivy Meshle, secretary to the fictitious Scientific Perditorian. The mystery in this particular installment seems a little forced and improbable, but will prove interesting to fans of the characters. Recommended for Middle School audiences.
    • 5/5
      I really have been enjoying this mystery series involving the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. In this book, the wonderful Dr. Watson has gone missing and Enola is on the case, solving it with ease before her dear brother Sherlock. Always an interesting and eventful read.
    • 5/5
      Excellent mystery. Enola, our plucky heroine, takes the case when Dr. Watson goes missing while still staying hidden from her brothers.