Enola Holmes: a Movie in Review

Published: Oct. 19, 2020, 1:58 p.m.

In this episode of Check It/Round Table Onna discusses her love of all things Sherlock Holmes and actually has written two gender-bender Sherlock Holmes spin-offs, The Science of Ms. Sharlock Holmes (Holmes Suite 221B: A Google in Vermilion Book 1), https://www.amazon.com/Science-Sharlock-Holmes-Suite-221B-ebook/dp/B07TS1LVCP/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=onna+carr+sharlock&qid=1604894369&sr=8-1 and Rise of Sharlock Holmes: Uncle Ed Remembers (Uncle Ed Remembers: Origins of 221B Book 1), https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Sharlock-Holmes-Remembers-Origins-ebook/dp/B07WDM3KP4/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=onna+carr+sharlock&qid=1604894404&sr=8-2.  Onna considers how Enola Holmes is the story of Sherlock Holmes' younger sister and how she was educated by her eccentric mother to read all the books in the library, to study martial arts, and on her 16th birthday, her mother vanishes.   Enola then goes on a whirlwind adventure and in the end escapes boarding school, solves a mystery and stops a murder, saves a vote for the people, and becomes a capable and independent woman  and that is when the curtain closes.  Onna concludes with how Enola and her name spelling alone backwords really shows how Mycroft, Sherlock, and Enola may function well independantly, but by naming Enola alone backwards, perhaps the mother of the Holmes family was suggesting that perhaps being independent but also to make connections rather than to hold people at an arms length.  


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