“Reporting to work that fateful morning at my office (that is to say, the office of Dr. Leslie T. Ragostin, Scientific Perditorian, my fictitious employer), I wore a perfectly fitted princess-style dress of mistletoe-green faille, with wide organza collar and matching hat on my tasteful russet coif (wig), and, on the appropriate finger, a wedding ring.”

In the year, since her mother disappeared, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes has done quite well for herself by creating alias, solving cases, keeping mainly to herself so as to stay safely away from her older brothers, Mycroft and Sherlock.  However, when a Spanish Duke frantically requests the help of Enola’s cover business, Dr. Ragostin, in finding his missing wife, Lady Blanchefleur del Campo, Enola is torn between helping and avoiding Sherlock, who was also hired to find the missing woman.  Soon Enola realizes that Lady Blanchfleur will need all the help she can get, so Enola risks everything to discover what happened to the Lady, despite Sherlock’s closeness to the case.  As Enola dives into the mystery of the missing woman, she soon finds herself cautiosly working with her older brother, but Sherlock’s promise to not hand her over to Mycroft or a boarding school, coupled with the news that Sherlock holds a strange puzzle from their mother, is enough for Enola to trust Sherlock.  As the Holmes siblings work together to find the missing Lady and their mother, Enola realizes that she might have been underestimating her brothers for far too long.

The sixth and originally intended to be the final book in the Enola Holmes series is a quick read that easily propels readers through the simple, but engaging mystery. The mystery is similar in style to Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, but brings a fresh spirit to the gritty world.  The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye is an exciting page-turner that will have readers glued to the story until the final page.