In this collection of short stories Lady Molly mainly uses women's intuition to solve the crimes that Scotland Yard have failed at. As told by her maid and friend Mary Granard
Enjoyed these stories, in particular the last in the book. ( )

i can't remember when i read this but i do remember enjoying it immensely ( )

3 stars: Enjoyed parts of it.

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Vintage stories, authored in the same era and taking the same spin as the Sherlock Holmes stories, only with a feminist spin. Lady Molly solves her cases by being familiar and observant with social customs and womens' habits. 12 stories here. Two or three seemed very familiar, so I may have run across them before. I found them fun, fast paced, and an enjoyable but not stand out, read.

Aside: these are authored by Baroness Orczy, better known for her Scarlet Pimpernel series. ( )

It really seems very unfair that the male Scarlet Pimpernel should be so famous and the female Lady Molly languish in obscurity. Of course the book isn't a paragon of modern feminism: Lady Molly is only in the detecting business for the sake of a man, and it's for his sake that she leaves it again. (Actually, before the last two chapters, I'd been cheerfully slashing Lady Molly and her Watsonian narrator/maid/friend Mary.) It is true that most of the stories are very slight, but they are a fun read, and should be better known. ( )

Very nice collection of short mystery stories. The ending was very unexpected, and I really liked it apart from the fact that there was an enormous plot hole (a man falls in love with his half-sister)! (I don't know how the author didn't notice that.) ( )