I recently learned that Baroness Orczy (The Scarlet Pimpernel) wrote short stories featuring one of the earliest fictional female detectives! That lead to Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, a collection of some of those stories. They are charming and clever and wonderful reads about all kinds of cases (not just murder) that stumped Scotland Yard, but I have to say that the text, at least in the book I had, was a bit small for my aging eyes. Just a warning here, don't let this keep you from these stories, or maybe there's a Large Type version available. :-)

Murder in the Scottish Hills is the second in the Scottish Ladies' Detective Agency series by Lydia Travers. The ladies are traveling to the highlands, by train, and they come across a body ... it falls out of the coach that looked empty and they thought they'd use on their trip. Also, there is something strange going on at the house where they are staying, something to do with art. The police are calling it a tragic accident, but Maud and Daisy think there is more to it, and maybe there's a connection, especially after a local artist is murdered.

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