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The Old Man in the Corner

by Baroness Orczy

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1908
Pages
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  1. The Fenchurch Street Mystery

    13:10

  2. The Millionaire in the Dock

    18:24

  3. His Deduction & The Robbery in Phillimore Terrace

    15:59

  4. A Night's Adventure & All He Knew

    20:31

  5. The York Mystery

    9:27

  6. The Capital Charge & A Broken-Hearted Woman

    24:47

  7. The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway

    20:18

  8. Mr. Errington

    14:48

  9. The Liverpool Mystery

    14:54

  10. A Cunning Rascal

    10:55

  11. The Edinburgh Mystery

    7:56

  12. A Terrible Plight

    9:25

  13. Non Proven & Undeniable Facts

    14:12

  14. The Theft at the English Provident Bank

    13:10

  15. Conflicting Evidence & An Alibi

    17:22

  16. The Dublin Mystery & Forgery

    19:55

  17. A Memorable Day & An Unparalleled Outrage

    16:27

  18. The Prisoner

    17:31

  19. A Sensation & Two Blackguards

    9:57

  20. The Regent’s Park Murder

    12:34

  21. The Motive & Friends

    15:54

  22. The De Genneville Peerage

    9:23

  23. A High-Bred Gentleman

    10:30

  24. The Living and the Dead & The Mysterious Death in Percy Street

    17:55

  25. Suicide or Murder? & The End

    24:58

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About this book

These detective stories introduced one of the genre's oddest sleuths: a nameless old man who sits in the corner of a London tea-shop, ties and unties knots in a length of string, and solves notorious crimes without ever leaving his chair. He lays out each case to a young woman journalist, reasoning from newspaper reports alone and taking a cool, almost cynical pleasure in showing how the guilty slipped past the police. First appearing in magazines from 1901 and collected in book form in 1908, the tales helped establish the armchair detective and remain sharp, ironic puzzles. Orczy, better known for the Scarlet Pimpernel, proves just as clever at plotting a mystery. Free PDF and EPUB edition available here.

About the author

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865 to 1947) was a Hungarian-born British author who settled in London and made her name with The Scarlet Pimpernel. Her sweeping romances of the French Revolution created one of fiction's first masked heroes and shaped a century of adventure storytelling.

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Book facts

First published
1908
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
189
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
J. M. Smallheer