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Scotland Yard's men see an easy suspect. Lady Molly sees what they miss.
In Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk takes on puzzles that defeat her fellow detectives. Deaths in country houses, disputed wills, jewels, and strange disappearances draw her into lives shaped by money, family quarrels, and hidden pasts.
Her assistant and devoted friend, Mary Granard, tells the cases with open affection. You follow the clues through Mary's eyes, often sharing her surprise as Lady Molly reads people with calm skill. Around them, male detectives doubt a woman's judgment, while a private concern quietly shadows Lady Molly's work.
What you’ll discover
- A calm, clever heroine Meet a detective whose quiet kindness goes hand in hand with a sharp understanding of people.
- Mary Granard tells the cases Share the assistant's close view of each mystery, without knowing every answer before she does.
- Puzzles of house and family Enter country houses where money, wills, and concealed pasts give Lady Molly plenty to untangle.
- A woman among doubting men Watch Lady Molly challenge officers who settle too quickly on the most obvious suspect.
- A private matter beneath Follow the personal thread that runs beneath the cases, adding feeling to their brisk puzzles.
Who will love it
Readers who love clever traps, disguises and puzzles solved in the final pages will enjoy this collection. Fans of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie will love its short cases and quick-thinking heroine.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Lady Molly takes the case
- Facts change when motives become clear
- Public sympathy can hide private interests
- Trust keeps a hidden plan moving
- The investigation turns toward Lady Molly
- Intuition becomes a method of testing
- Disguises reveal what people expect
- Mary shares the reader's uncertainty
- Small details expose larger motives
Who’s who
- Lady MollyHead of the Female Department at Scotland Yard, she reads people brilliantly and uses disguise and traps to solve cases that baffle the men.
- Mary GranardLady Molly's loyal assistant and friend, she tells every story and often obeys orders without knowing the plan.
- The chiefLady Molly's superior at Scotland Yard, who sends her the hardest cases and sometimes doubts her methods.
- Inspector DanversA big, steady Yard officer who helps Lady Molly make arrests and keeps watch outside doors.
- Inspector EttyA Yorkshire police superintendent who respects Lady Molly and works beside her at Bishopthorpe and Appledore.
- Captain Hubert de MazareenA tall young soldier and grandson of a shipowner, he loves Lady Molly and faces danger in the final chapters.
- Philip BaddockThe unknown son of Sir Jeremiah, he comes to Appledore Castle and lives in its shadow, wanting a share of a fortune.
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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
by Baroness Orczy · 1910
A brilliant detective solves murders and thefts that stump the men while guarding a secret of her own.
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Picture a young woman hurrying through Charing Cross to catch the eleven o'clock train to Canterbury. A girl has been found dead in a village pond, the newspapers are howling at Scotland Yard, and the men are out of ideas.
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- 1910by Baroness Orczy
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Two early cases show Lady Molly reading people
The collection opens at Ninescore, a sleepy village in Kent. A body in a blue dress lies face down in a muddy pond on the grounds of Ash Court. Lady Molly arrives with Mary, posing as two lady artists on a sketching tour. The evidence is full of loose ends, and suspicion falls on a rich young man who swears he was a hundred miles away.
The second case is the Frewin miniatures. Eight tiny portraits worth 10,000 pounds vanish from Blatchley House on the night old Mr. Frewin dies. The public blames his son, who refused to come to his bedside. Lady Molly asks the chief to send notices to museums, then chats about miniatures in a Brighton hotel lounge. A small sealed packet in her dressing case is her bait.
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Orczy, Emmuska. Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/lady-molly-of-scotland-yard.
Orczy, E. (2026). Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/lady-molly-of-scotland-yard (Original work published 1910)
Orczy, Emmuska. Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/lady-molly-of-scotland-yard.
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What is Lady Molly of Scotland Yard about?
It follows Lady Molly, head of Scotland Yard's Female Department, as she solves twelve cases, from murders and thefts to disappearances. Her friend Mary Granard tells each story, and a quiet thread about Lady Molly's own life runs through them.
Who is Mary Granard in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard?
Mary is Lady Molly's friend and assistant, and the narrator. She takes shorthand, plays parts in disguise, and obeys her friend's orders without always knowing why, so she serves as the reader's eyes in each case.
When was Lady Molly of Scotland Yard written?
Baroness Orczy's stories about Lady Molly were collected in 1910. They are fiction, set in Edwardian Britain and Europe, and they belong to the early wave of detective stories that put a woman at the centre of the investigation.
The author
Baroness Orczy
1865–1947 · Hungarian-born British novelist
Baroness Orczy (1865–1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. Born Emma Orczy in Tarnaörs, Hungary, she moved to London in 1880. She wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1905, and detective stories, including The Old Man in the Corner and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. She died in London.
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