Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0728BPQ58 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 367 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
As well as being one of the first novels to feature a female detective as the main character, Orczy's outstandingly successful police officer preceded her real life female counterparts by a decade. Lady Molly, like her fictional contemporaries, most often succeeded because she recognized domestic clues foreign to male experience. Her shocking entry into the male domain of the police is forgivable when it is discovered that her motive is to save her fiancé from a false accusation. First published in 1910, Orczy's female detective was the precursor of the lay sleuth who relies on brains rather than brawn. Once her superior intuition has triumphed, Lady Molly very properly marries and leaves the force.. "Lady Molly of Scotland Yard" is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective
Fun find. A female detective in 1910 England. Lady Molly is a woman ahead of her time. The first real-life female detectives didn't show up until a decade or so after Baroness Orczy's fictional one. Whether Emmuska Orczy (yes, the author of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL books) helped pave the way for real policewomen and detectives isn't provable, but I'd like to think her stories did.Lady Molly is quite the character. She relies on her brains and female intuition and picks up on information and clues that her male counterparts don't notice or don't feel is important. Oh, and let's no. "Pleasant way to pass a little time" according to Kindle Customer. I'm a fan of mysteries and I have a special interest in the gaslight era. The Lady Molly stories are unique in some ways but share many common characteristics with other works of the time.Lady Molly is a lady in a highly class consciously era, who is a special assistant to Scotland Yard. This is behavior that is highly taboo for a woman of her class, but we're told that she has reasons. The reasons are finally given in the last story.The narrator is her maid who adores her mistress, has absolute faith in her abilities and blindly d. Love this Classic Mystery! :0) If you love Sherlock Holmes, you MUST read Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. Like Sherlock, it is written in 1st person from the point of view of the assistant. It's classic literature, so nice to have it on Kindle for those archaic words. These are short novellas, or long short stories.but you can read one in a sitting, then put it away while you read others. I was introduced to the author, Baroness Orczy, in a Dover book of women mystery writers. Fell in love with her writing and this one has all her stories about Lady Molly. Enjoy! :