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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

by Baroness Orczy (Author), Baroness Orczy (Author), Emmuska Orczy (Author)

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Synopsis

Mystery readers and lovers of detective fiction are in for a real treat with the twelve intersected stories featuring the ace sleuth Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. Head of the female department at that redoubtable institution in 1910, Lady Molly invariably becomes the police chief's secret weapon and method-of-last resort when confronted with seemingly unsolvable crimes. The stories are narrated by Lady Molly's devoted assistant Mary Granard, a latter-day Dr. Watson, and they offer a fascinating look into the culture of London at the turn of the previous century. Lady Molly is one of the first mystery stories to feature a crack female detective, and she has been described as a valuable precursor to such modern-day detectives as V.I. Warshawski and Kinsey Millhone. Relying on brains rather than brawn, her incredibly capable female intuition allows her to catch clues that her fellows at the Yard, "the blundering and sterner sex," miss wholesale. Lady Molly also employs an admirable any-means-necessary approach to police detection, and she is not afraid to take spectacular chances in these wildly entertaining and erudite mystery stories. She can hold her own fight, as displayed in the story "The Irish Tweed Coat," and Lady Molly forever stays one step ahead of the miscreants. And she invariably gets her man, so to speak. Baroness Orczy (1865-1947), a well-known British novelist and playwright, was famous for her series of novels featuring the scarlet Pimpernel. a first-rate author of detective fiction, Orczy was a prolific author of novels, plays, short stories, and translations from her native Hungarian.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 250
 Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Published: 15 May 2010
ISBN 10: 0897336038
ISBN 13: 9780897336031

Author Bio
Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. In 1903, she and her husband wrote a play based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the French Revolution: The Scarlet Pimpernel. This theatrical success generated huge sales for the novel that followed. She went on to write over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, his family, and the other members of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, of which the first, I Will Repay (1906), was the most popular. The last Pimpernel book, Mam'zelle Guillotine, was published in 1940. None of her three subsequent plays matched the success of The Scarlet Pimpernel. She also wrote popular mystery fiction and many adventure romances. Her Lady Molly of Scotland Yard was an early example of a female detective as the main character. During the First World War, Baroness Orczy formed the Women of England's Active Service League, an unofficial organization aimed at the recruitment of male volunteers for active service. Her aim was to enlist 100,000 women who would pledge to persuade every man I know to offer his service to his country. Some 20,000 women joined her organization.