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Cargando... Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910)por Baroness Orczy
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 3 stars: Enjoyed parts of it. ----------- 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. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Mystery readers and fans of detective fiction and the police procedural are in for a real treat with these twelve interlaced stoires featuring Lady Molly, head of the Female Department at Scotland Yard in and around 1910. Lady Molly is an ace sleuth and the Police Chief's secret weapon when faced with perplexing and unsolvable cases. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Enjoyed these stories, in particular the last in the book. ( )