Molly Thynne (Mary Thynne, 1881 to 1950) was a British detective novelist of the Golden Age. She came from an aristocratic family and was linked through her mother's side to the painter James McNeill Whistler. She grew up in Kensington, London, and as a young woman met literary figures such as Rudyard Kipling and Henry James. Her first novel, a non-crime work called An Uncertain Glory, appeared in 1914. She turned to detective fiction in the late 1920s and early 1930s and wrote six mysteries in about six years. The Draycott Murder Mystery is one of them. It follows John Leslie, a young farmer who finds a dead woman in his house, and his amateur-detective friend Allen Fayre. The Draycott Murder Mystery was published in 1928. The last three of her mysteries feature Dr. Constantine, a chess-master amateur sleuth. She never married. She liked to travel abroad but spent most of her life in Bovey Tracey, Devon, where she died and was buried in 1950. Her books went out of print for decades and have recently been reissued, including by Dean Street Press.
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