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I thoroughly fell in love with the first book in The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency series, The Case of the Missing Moonstone, and The Case of the Girl in Grey is a delightful sequel. Again Jordan Stratford brings together the mother of modern science fiction, Mary Shelley, and the world's first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, as girls (14 and 11, respectively) who solve mysteries. This particular mystery is inspired by the Gothic classic The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Once more, Percy B. Shelley and Charles Dickens play key roles in the tale, and this time Mary's stepsister Jane and Ada's half-sister Allegra also join the adventure.

The book ends with a discussion of the real history behind Ada, Mary, Jane, Allegra, Wollstonecraft, The Woman in White, and the other ingredients of the story, and Stratford makes it clear when and why he's taken liberties with the past. I said it before and I'll say it again: this is the perfect storm of inspiration, entertainment, and education. Buy it for the young readers you know, but read it for your own pleasure, too.