The Case of the Left-Handed Lady: An Enola Holmes Mystery Read online

  As I stood up, crossed my room and threw everything I had written into the fire, she knocked hard enough to crack walnuts. “Newspapers, Miss Meshle!” she shouted into my face just as I opened the door.

  “Thank you, Mrs. Tupper.” She couldn’t hear me, of course, but she could see my lips move in what I hoped was a smile as I took the papers from her hands.

  However, she did not then go away. Instead, she straightened her short, hunched form to its limit and fixed me with her watery gaze. “Miss Meshle,” she declaimed with the bravado of one who has decided to perform a Moral Duty, “it’s no good yer shuttin’ yerself up this way. Now whatever ’appened, and it’s none of my business, but whatever it was, it’s no use gittin’ pale about. Now, it’s a nice day out, wit’ a bit uv sun and startin’ to feel springish. Now whyn’t you git yer bonnet on an’ go out for a walk, at least – ”

  Or I believe she said something of the sort. I barely heard her, and I am sorry to say I shut the door in her face, for my gaze had caught upon the Daily Telegraph’s headline and fixed there.

  It said:SHERLOCK HOLMES ASSOCIATE

  MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS

  DR. WATSON’S WHEREABOUTS

  UNKNOWN

  ALSO BY NANCY SPRINGER

  THE ENOLA HOLMES MYSTERIES

  The Case of the Missing Marquess

  The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets

  The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan

  The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline

  The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye

  THE TALES OF ROWAN HOOD

  Rowan Hood, Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest

  Lionclaw

  Outlaw Princess of Sherwood

  Wild Boy

  Rowan Hood Returns, the Final Chapter

  THE TALES FROM CAMELOT

  I am Mordred

  I am Morgan Le Fay