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BeccaAnn · 08-25-2009, 01:55 PM

I nominate "Lady Molly of Scotland Yard", a collection of short stories.
Here's a blurb by HarryT from the BBeb/LRF edition here on MR: "Feisty, brilliant, and beautiful; precursor of the sleuth who relies on brains rather than brawn, Lady Molly, and her faithful sidekick and admiring chronicler Mary, began appearing in Orczy's entertaining stories years before the first Englishwoman did in fact become an officer of the law."
It's similar to "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" in that the one telling the story isn't the one who solves the mystery and that since this was written early 20th century, forensics isn't the focus for solving the case.

08-25-2009, 01:55 PM	#10
BeccaAnn Groupie Posts: 188 Karma: 660 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Spearfish, SD, USA Device: Sony PRS-505	I nominate "Lady Molly of Scotland Yard", a collection of short stories. Here's a blurb by HarryT from the BBeb/LRF edition here on MR: "Feisty, brilliant, and beautiful; precursor of the sleuth who relies on brains rather than brawn, Lady Molly, and her faithful sidekick and admiring chronicler Mary, began appearing in Orczy's entertaining stories years before the first Englishwoman did in fact become an officer of the law." It's similar to "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" in that the one telling the story isn't the one who solves the mystery and that since this was written early 20th century, forensics isn't the focus for solving the case.