Enola Holmes: 10 Things From The Books Not Included In The Film

10. Crawlers, Feces, And Corpses Frozen To Victorian London's Streets

The young adult book series doesn't shy away from the grim realities of Victorian London. More than once, the series shows Enola unsure whether a slumped figure in an alleyway is a drunkard or a corpse, or outright stating that Enola has become uncomfortable with winter due to her seeing the corpse of a beggar frozen to the pavement, not to thaw until spring.

The book also mentions the nastiness that is the overabundance of horse dung caking London's busy streets, largely overlooked in the film.

But the most horrific of Victorian facts in the book are the "Crawlers" - beggars so weak they lie and crawl in the dirt. Historically, Victorian photojournalist John Thomson described them thus:

Huddled together on the workhouse steps in Short’s Gardens, those wrecks of humanity, the Crawlers of St. Giles’s, may be seen both day and night seeking mutual warmth and mutual consolation in their extreme misery. As a rule, they are old women reduced by vice and poverty to that degree of wretchedness which destroys even the energy to beg.

Such facts are not only referenced in the books, but also become major elements in the cases Enola pursues and solves.