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A second double bill for Lady Molly of Scotland Yard — two of Baroness Orczy's strongest cases.
🧥 THE IRISH-TWEED COAT It begins with an Englishman dead in Sicily. Mr. Andrew Carrthwaite, a Yorkshireman who owned marble works outside Palermo and refused to let a single one of his workmen join any society, club or union, is found in his own garden with a stiletto between his shoulder blades — and a scrap of rough Irish tweed, torn from his killer's coat, clutched in his hand. His gold watch is missing, which looks like robbery; the Sicilian police think otherwise. The case will take Lady Molly a very long way from Scotland Yard — further than is entirely safe.
🏰 THE FORDWYCH CASTLE MYSTERY When the ablest men at the Yard are at their wits' end, the chief instinctively turns to Lady Molly. A death at a great house. An ancient barony that descends through the female line. Two granddaughters, a disputed inheritance, a lawyer, and a household in which almost everyone is a woman with something to protect — and a solution nobody at Scotland Yard will reach by ordinary means.
What is striking about tonight's pair is how far Orczy lets her heroine go: arrested abroad in one story, handing a great house its worst secret in the other, and in neither does she need rescuing.
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS These are complete, unabridged readings of The Irish-Tweed Coat and The Fordwych Castle Mystery by Baroness Orczy, collected in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910) and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.
🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXT The Archive is deep — more Lady Molly? Loveday Brooke? Raffles? Max Carrados? Arsène Lupin? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.
💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS In the first case, a woman is too frightened of a man to accuse him even after everything. The people most afraid to speak usually have the best reason to. Which of tonight's two stayed with you? 🕵️
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🧾 CREDITS Stories by Baroness Orczy (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.
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