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Chargement... Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910)par Baroness Orczy
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 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. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1910 Original Publisher: Cassell Subjects: Fiction / Action Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Enjoyed these stories, in particular the last in the book. ( )