The Case of the Missing Moonstone (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency #1)

Imagine the future Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, as an 11-year-old Sherlock Holmes, with the future Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, as her 14-year-old Watson (and the young Charles Dickens as a helpful sidekick). The new Wollstonecraft Detective Agency series plays merrily loose with historical details, but with a classic mystery to solve and appealing characters who are true in spirit to their real models, young readers will be intrigued by some of the most fascinating figures in nineteenth-century London. (8 to 12)