Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
Baroness Emma Orczy
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written by Baroness Orczy, who is best known as the creator of The Scarlet Pimpernel, but who also invented two immortal turn-of-the-century detectives in The Old Man in the Corner and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. First published in 1910, Orczy’s female detective was the precursor of the lay sleuth who relies on brains rather than brawn. The book soon became very popular, with three editions appearing in the first year. 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.(Introduction from Wikipedia) (7 hr 51 min)
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Lady Molly
telOlmeatale
Another great narration by my favorite narrator J.M. Smallheer. The character Lady Molly is a very enjoyable one and one of Baroness Orczy enjoyable takes. J. M. Smallheer brings Lady Molly alive and keeps the listener in the tales till the very end. Fun but yet puzzling cases made me wanting more of Lady Molly!
A 1910 novel with a female detective
Mac
Very well read! Enjoyable easy to listen to stories. Not a lot of depth or character development in the tales but the mystery concepts are fun and I love that this is such an early mystery novel with a strong female lead, a woman detective valued by the police!
Fun stories great narration
benefitsingers
J. M. Smallheer is a particular favorite of mine and she narrates these stories with her usual flair. She does some accents that are always cute and she brings Miss Molly and really her maid Mary to life. The stories about lady Molly are fun and entertaining. The ending was well done as often I find short stories within a main story can be hard to follow. This ending tied things up quite neatly. Enjoy!
Lady Molly
shavon
I love a good mystery especially if its a crime story. I was on the edge the whole time I lustered. Thank you to the reader. She was terrific..... like .... Barbers Rosenblat..... yes... that's what I said...
SURPRISE
Avid Listener
The individual cases are good, light reading, each requiring something less than an hour. The last two, however, tie everything together in a surprise ending. The reader did a commendable job.
A True-hearted Woman
Jpassservais
I certainly agree with one passage in the book, which I will quote with, I believe, but one word changed: "...a true-hearted American woman is the finest product of God's earth, after all is said and done." In this I am an expert as the father of four beautiful, kind and loving daughters. I thought the reader did an excellent job in bringing this book to all of us and giving us the gift of her gift. I am a staunch admirer of female heroines and Lady Molly one one of my favorites. But this is a book which is so well written and read that I believe anyone would enjoy it. God bless Librivox and American women!!!
Memorable!
Ancient Aunt
I shan't be forgetting this book any time soon. Lady Molly is smart as a whip and is successful in solving crimes at a time it was not at all the thing for a lady to be doing. This is a series of short stories featuring a variety of types of crime to be solved and she excels in all cases, seeing things from a woman's point of view that her male counterparts have missed. This Librivox volunteer also does a marvelous job!
Kaoru
A very enjoyable set of tales, though whenever Orczy writes a lower-class character I can't help but laugh at her a little - "Oh you really ARE a baroness, aren't you!" Unsurprisingly the best stories here are the ones about the inheritance disputes of the upper crust. If I were rating Librivox readers this one would be just a half-step below the best. Her narration is just a little on the monotone side but I really appreciate her work with accents.