In the well over a century since authors started writing their own stories starring Arthur Conan Doyle's signature character, Sherlock Holmes has been revived from the dead in the future, fought Lovecraftian horrors and been transported to the Holodeck of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Occasionally, these professional fan-fictions have a subversive aim, and the kind offered by Nancy Springer's YA series of Enola Holmes books is among the most appealing for today's audiences: What if Sherlock, who was famously distrustful of women, actually inherited his astonishing qualities from a proto-feminist mother?
And what if he had a long-discarded baby sister who showed similar gifts of deduction? Adapting the first of Springer's books as the.
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