The Spiritglass Charade by Colleen Gleason

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS:
Print: COPYRIGHT: October 7, 2014; ISBN: 978-1452110719; PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books; PAGES: 360; UNABRIDGED (Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 - 18 years; Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 840L; Grade level ‏ : ‎ 7 – 12)
Digital: Available

* (This version) Audio: COPYRIGHT: 10/7/2014; ASIN: ‎ B00K7BCSIE; PUBLISHER: Audible; DURATION: 8:58:00; Unabridged; (Audible)

Feature Film or tv: No

SERIES: Stoker & Homes, Book 2

MAIN CHARACTERS: (spelling could be wrong—I was listening, not reading)
Miss Alvemina (Mina) Holmes - Sherlock Holmes neice
Miss Evaline Stoker - Graham Stoker's sister
Irene Adler - Admired by Sherlock Holmes
Dylan Eckhert - Time traveler
Ambrose Grayling - an Inspector
Richard Dancy - Evaline's admirer
Pix - an underworld character who assists Evaline occasionally
Willa Ashton - Her brother is missing
Robbie Ashton - Willa's missing brother
Angus - Richard's dog described as a Basset hound, but referred to as a Beagle.

SUMMARY/ EVALUATION:
How I picked it. It was the next book in the series.
What it was about: Sherlock Holmes’ niece and Graham Stoker’s sister, both aged 17, team up to assist Irene Adler solve another mystery, this one involving a young boy who has gone missing.
What I thought: Well done. I enjoy the steampunk genre, and the story held my interest. I also enjoy the humor and the author's vocabulary.

AUTHOR:
Colleen Gleason
From Wikipedia:
“Colleen Gleason lives near Ann Arbor, Michigan[1] with her husband and children.[2][3] She has a degree in English and a MBA from the University of Michigan.[1] She started writing in primary school and wrote nine complete stories before selling the first book of her The Gardella Vampire Chronicles[3] series to a division of Penguin Books, which published it in January 2007:[3] the series arrives at a conclusion on March 2009. In 2008 she wrote a short story, a prequel to the series, titled In Which a Masquerade Ball Unmasks an Undead, published first in the Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance, then as Victoria Gardella: Vampire Slayer. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in sales and marketing and started her own business[3] in the insurance field.[4]

In 2010, she started the six-novel series The Envy Chronicles, written using the pen name Joss Ware. In 2011, she wrote The Regency Draculia trilogy.”

She has also written short stories. In 2010, she collaborated with Mary Balogh, Susan Krinard and Janet Mullany in a paranormal tribute to Jane Austen, writing "Northanger Castle" for the book Bespelling Jane Austen, published on October 1, 2010.[5]”

NARRATOR:
Jayne Entwistle
From “thejayneshow” .com:
“Jayne was born in the North of England and lived in a myriad of places (Vancouver, San Francisco, Tucson, Sequim, Seattle) before landing in Los Angeles. She is an avid improviser who hitched her space-work wagon to Patrick Bristow’s company, Improvatorium, where she studied, taught, directed and performed improv.

She is an award-winning audiobook narrator best known for her narration of the Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley. She also received the 2015 Odyssey Honour Award for The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry and the 2016 Odyssey Award for, The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.

When not inhaling books for work or pleasure, Jayne works in film, television and commercials. The biggest star she has ever worked with is Shaquille O’Neal. He is quite literally THE biggest star she has ever worked with. Ever. He’s really big!”

LOCATION(S)
London

TIME(S)
1889

SUBJECTS:
Time travel; vampires; vampire slayers; Sherlock Holmes characters; kidnappings

DEDICATION:
Not found.

SAMPLE QUOTATION:
From Chapter 1, Miss Holmes, Miss Adler is Tardy
“I reside in the very modernized London during the fifty-second year of Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s reign. Our Prime Minister is Lord Salisbury, and Parliament is led by the esteemed Lord Cosgrove-Pitt.
My nation is besotted with science, evolution, and invention. If a device can be conceived, someone somewhere is determined that it should be built (which is the only explanation I have for the unfortunate Hystand’s Mechanized Eyelash-Combe).
This proliferation of invention and scientific practice is why I found it both amazing and disappointing that no one had yet invented a working time machine. And the reason I felt this disappointment looked up at me with deep blue eyes.
“Good morning, Dylan,” I said as I closed Miss Irene Adler’s office door behind me.
Though I’d expected to find the dark-haired woman sitting at a large desk in her Darjeeling-scented chamber, I confess I wasn’t at all disappointed to find the young man instead. In fact, to my chagrin, my cheeks heated and my insides gave a little flutter the instant I saw him.”

RATING:.
4

STARTED READING – FINISHED READING
1-18-2023 to 1-23-2023 ( )

Really good. Strong ending. I LOVE the twist at the end! Need the next book! ( )

Really good. Strong ending. I LOVE the twist at the end! Need the next book! ( )

This book is fantastic! I love the world that Gleason has created here, based on other beloved fictional characters. It's fun, interesting, and memorable! ( )

willikers, all these people. still charming and dumb, still super aggressively straight, but everyone's becoming a little more three dimensional, THANK GOD. also, I'm into this worldbuilding and would appreciate a crossover between these ladies and the finishing school cast, get on it. ( )