Young Miss Holmes Casebook 1-2

Young Miss Holmes Casebook 1-2 by Kaoru Shintani, 384 pages

Sherlock Holmes’s niece, Christie, is the 10 year old daughter of Holmes’s sister and is nearly as brilliant as he is. She often visits him and can solve cases that he is working on as quickly as he does. This casebook encompasses several stories that Christie either helps with or solves on her own. For example, in the second story, The Problem Of Thor Bridge, Christie decides to pay her respects to her neighbors because the lady of the household has been found murdered. Upon arrival, she runs into Dr. Watson and her Uncle Sherlock and helps solve the mystery of what happened. This is a manga style graphic novel and the stories were pretty good. Christie is a likeable heroine and readers will appreciate the fact that she can outsmart most of the adults around her. Teen fans of manga mystery will probably like this series.