Mr. Stratford asked himself, "What if Ada Bryon and Mary Shelley knew each other and were friends?" and created this fun series. Ada reminds me of Sherlock and Mary reminds me of Watson. The setting is in London where girls and women are treated with less respect than men. This social divide does not prevent the girls from solving their first case and apprehending a ("not so very clever") criminal. Other interesting characters whom Mr. Stratford includes are: Charles Dickens (as a boy), Charles Babbage, and Percy Shelley.
In real life people refer to Ada as the first computer programmer. Mary Shelley, of course, wrote the first science fiction novel, Frankenstein.
A great map of London in 1826 is included in the front and in the back Mr. Stratford explains the real characters and true interesting facts about their life.
Lots of figurative language-personification, metaphors, similes.
Funny, clever. A must read!
**Highly recommend.
Look for book #2 in Aug. 2015-The Case of the Girl in Grey
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