The Old Man in the Corner

by Baroness Emma Orczy

Overview

The Old Man in the Corner is an unnamed armchair detective who appears in a series of short stories written by Baroness Orczy. He was one of the first of this character-type created in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786057748621
Publisher:	E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Publication date:	10/20/1908
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (1865 - 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. Also, The Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" into popular culture.
Other Books of the Author:

• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
• The Old Man in the Corner (1908)
• The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1919)
• El Dorado (1913)
• The Elusive Pimpernel (1908)
• I Will Repay (1906)

Table of Contents

• The Fenchurch Street Mystery
• The Robbery in Phillimore Terrace
• The York Mystery
• The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway
• The Liverpool Mystery
• The Edinburgh Mystery
• The Theft at the English Provident Bank

• The Dublin Mystery
• The Brighton Mystery
• The Regent's Park Murder
• The Birmingham Mystery
• The Mysterious Death In Percy Street

Editorial Reviews

The man in the corner pushed aside his glass, and leant across the table.

"Mysteries!" he commented. "There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation."

Very much astonished Polly Burton looked over the top of her newspaper, and fixed a pair of very severe, coldly inquiring brown eyes upon him.

She was a personality, was Miss Burton of the Evening Observer. Her cards were printed thus:

Miss Mary J. Burton.

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