Enola Holmes and the Boy in Buttons

By Nancy Springer

Nancy Springer's nationally bestselling series and breakout Netflix sensation is back! In this short story, Enola Holmes is on the case when a young porter - the boy in buttons - disappears without a trace.

Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft, owns a building in the heart of 19th century London, a place she uses under pseudonyms to front for her investigative work. Employed there is a porter - Joddy, a young boy in a uniform festooned with buttons - whose even younger brother substitutes for him when he's sick. But Paddy disappears after one day at the job and Enola Holmes is alerted to this by the still ill Joddy.

Determined to find the missing porter, Enola travels to the rough part of London where the boys live and starts searching Aldgate Pump area for the missing boy. When she finds the missing buttons - but not the boy - she decides that drastic action is essential if she's to save the missing boy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Jun 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781250838902

Nancy Springer

NANCY SPRINGER is the author of the nationally bestselling Enola Holmes novels, including The Case of the Missing Marquess, which was made into the hit Netflix movie, Enola Holmes. She is the author of more than 50 other books for children and adults. She has won many awards, including two Edgar Awards, and has been published in more than thirty countries. She lives in Florida.

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’Ello, Miss Meshle! cried Joddy, the boy in buttons who greeted me at the front door of Dr. Ragostin’s stately edifice. Blushing, he then babbled, Excuse me, I mean, um, good day, Mrs. Jacobson.

I had been known to him by those names, and more, during the year I was evading my brothers Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes—but those times were no more.

Both of those persons are as fictitious as Dr. Ragostin himself, Joddy, I responded with a smile, handing him handing him a bundle of new textbooks I was carrying done up in a strap.

Accepting this in his usual lackwit manner, Joddy gawked up at me—for he had seldom seen me all summer, he probably did not understand what I meant by fictitious, nor did he quite know what to