Review: Enjoyable reading
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2014
The stories all have turn of the century settings. Lady Molly and Loveday Brooke are British, while Amelia Butterworth is American. Lady Molly, who works for Scotland Yard, has a somewhat mysterious background (revealed in the end), Loveday Brooke works for a firm of private detectives, and Amelia Butterworth is a true amateur. All three work on cases involving women or where a woman's insight is valuable.The Butterworth stories are the weakest from the point of view of detection. In "That Affair Next Door", the villain turns out to be someone who was not a suspect at all -- in fact, only appearing in reference to another minor character a few times. Neither Amelia nor her police detective friend actually solve the crime, instead someone simply tells them the solution at the end. The Butterworth stories are interesting reading, but fall short in the solve-the-crime department.