![]() ![]() Acting on orders from the Princess of Wales, she commissions Mina Holmes, daughter of Mycroft and niece of Sherlock, and Evaline Stoker, the much younger sister of Bram and the descendant of a talented Regency vampire huntress (familiar to readers of Gleason’s Gardella series), to investigate the disappearance and deaths of several young society girls. Irene Adler (yes, that Irene Adler, the woman who outwitted Sherlock Holmes) has left her husband and the opera stage for a new career as a cataloger of antiquities at the British Museum. Gleason sets “The Clockwork Scarab” in a London that is recognizably Victorian but filled with steampunk technology, sure to please what she delightfully calls the “cognoggins” among us. ![]() Where would teenage mysteries be without idiotic antics like going down to the docks alone late at night or opening haunted lockets? And where would Victorian London be without Undead motifs like fog and Scotland Yard? In two new middle-grade novels, Colleen Gleason and Jonathan Stroud have vamped up the familiar world of Holmes and Watson - and Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew - to paranormally exhilarating effect. ![]()
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