Baroness Orczy

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the author of The Scarlet Pimpernell, comes a series of 12 stories featuring one of literature’s first female detectives. Molly Robertson-Kirk a.k.a. Lady Molly shares the same mental prowess as C. Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes but brings a woman’s wit to the table making for a formidable crime buster. Join her as she solves the crimes that plague the hills and highlands of Inverness, Scotland.

This eBook includes all 12 Lady Molly stories:

THE NINESCORE MYSTERY
THE FREWIN MINIATURES
THE IRISH-TWEED COAT
THE FORDWYCH CASTLE MYSTERY
A DAY'S FOLLY
A CASTLE IN BRITTANY
A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY
THE BAG OF SAND
THE MAN IN THE INVERNESS CAPE
THE WOMAN IN THE BIG HAT
SIR JEREMIAH'S WILL
THE END

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Enhanced Media Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781387010103
• Artikelnr.: 48470996

Autorenporträt

Baroness Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaors, Hungary in 1865. She was a notable artist, playwright and author. Her father Baron Felix Orczy was a composer and mother Countess Emma Orczy. Due to a peasant revolt her family fled to Brussels then Paris and lastly to London. With her sister Emma studied in convent schools in Brussels and Paris. She learned music and paintings but gained success in paintings at the West London School of Art and at Heartherley. In collaboration with her husband Montague Barstow, Baroness Hungarian fairy tales and began writing romance and fiction. She was appreciated for the translation of Old Hungarian Fairy Tales. Her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks faced rejection for being too short. But her second novel 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' proved a boon for him, she earned name and fame. As a prominent author she wrote dozens of romantic novels, plays and detective stories. Her memorable works-The Man in Grey, The Laughing Cavalier, Skin O' My Tooth, Eldorado- a sequel to the Scarlet Pimpernel, The Old Man in the Corner, The Divine Folly, The Old Scare Crow, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard etc. She was died in London in 1947.