Nominally a take on the Sherlock story: under pressure to behave as a young woman of society, brilliant Charlotte Holmes uses the persona of Sherlock to solve mysteries and investigate suspicious deaths. I liked the pointed critique of the gender imbalance of the era, and how a woman would have had to jump through many more hoops to get the same kind of automatic respect and freedom that Holmes and Watson had; however, I found the rest of the plot rather contrived and thought it was unfortunate that for all her brilliance, Charlotte’s intuition was not essential to the resolution of the conflict.