title: The Spiritglass Charade: A Stoker & Holmes Novel
author:  Colleen Gleason 
description: Gr 8 UpLittle more than a month has passed since teens Evaline Stoker (sister of Bram) and Mina Holmes (niece of Sherlock) wound down their first collaborative effort at fighting crime and solving mysteries in The Clockwork Scarab (Chronicle, 2013). When the young women are summoned by Princess Alexandra, daughter of Queen Victoria, their skills are tested once again. The royal enlists the girls' help in a case involving her dear friend who has fallen prey to a manipulative spiritualist. Then there is the issue of vampiresthought to be long extinctskulking through the streets of London. Told in Evaline's and Mina's alternating first-person points of view, the story gives readers an illuminating and fascinating peek into late-Victorian London life. Evaline, a bold and vivacious aspiring vampire slayer, craves adventure and risk. Mina prefers work that requires the methodical application of her inestimable sleuthing skills. Problems are compounded when Dylan, the time-traveler from modern-day London, tries to help. His assistanceperforming the Heimlich maneuver on an aged, grumpy Queen Victoria, for instancemight very well alter the course of history. Gleason's novel is a well-oiled machine. Every literary cog and wheel has its distinct functionthe authentic historical framework, the adeptly integrated steampunk devices, the compelling personalities and backgrounds of the outwardly tough but inwardly vulnerable heroinesyet all work together in easy synchronization.Jennifer Prince, Buncombe County Public Libraries, NC
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  Maura Kye-Casella  
  Congratulations on winning the title game!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2014 by Colleen Gleason.
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced  
  in any form without written permission from the publisher.
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
  
  Gleason, Colleen, author.  
  The spiritglass charade: a Stoker & Holmes novel / Colleen Gleason.  
  pages cm.—(A Stoker & Holmes novel ; book 2)  
  Summary: In 1889 Evaline Stoker, Mina Holmes, and their time-traveler friend
  Dylan are asked by the Princess of Wales to find out what happened to Robby
  Ashton, who may have drowned—but the reappearance of vampires in the heart of
  London threatens to become a more urgent problem.  
  ISBN 978-1-4521-1071-4 (alk. paper)  
  ISBN 978-1-4521-3058-3 (ebook)  
  1\. Vampires—Juvenile fiction. 2. Time travel—Juvenile fiction. 3. Missing
  persons—Juvenile fiction. 4. Spiritualism—Juvenil