The Old Man In The Corner

by Baroness Orczy

Overview

These Twelve Mysteries by the Author of 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' Concern a Mysterious Armchair Detective who Solves Crimes from Reports and Using Logic. The Stories Describe Murders, Blackmail, Theft and Deception, but All Have as Their Setting the Fog-Cloaked Edwardian Streets: Fenchurch Street, Percy Street and Lisson Grove in London. Dublin, Glasgow, and Liverpool are Also Home to Cases That Have Baffled Detectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789357484220
Publisher:	Double 9 Booksllp
Publication date:	01/03/2023
Pages:	212
Sales rank:	905,075
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Baroness Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaors, Hungary in 1865. She was a notable artist, playwright and author. Her father Baron Felix Orczy was a composer and mother Countess Emma Orczy. Due to a peasant revolt her family fled to Brussels then Paris and lastly to London. With her sister Emma studied in convent schools in Brussels and Paris. She learned music and paintings but gained success in paintings at the West London School of Art and at Heartherley. In collaboration with her husband Montague Barstow, Baroness Hungarian fairy tales and began writing romance and fiction. She was appreciated for the translation of Old Hungarian Fairy Tales. Her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks faced rejection for being too short. But her second novel 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' proved a boon for him, she earned name and fame. As a prominent author she wrote dozens of romantic novels, plays and detective stories. Her memorable works-The Man in Grey, The Laughing Cavalier, Skin O' My Tooth, Eldorado- a sequel to the Scarlet Pimpernel, The Old Man in the Corner, The Divine Folly, The Old Scare Crow, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard etc. She was died in London in 1947.

Table of Contents

	The Fenchurch Street Mystery	1
	The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway	21
	The Mysterious Death in Percy Street	41
	The Dublin Mystery	59
	The Glasgow Mystery	77
	The Liverpool Mystery	95
	The Case of Miss Elliott	111
	The Lisson Grove Mystery	129
	The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace	147
	The Tremarn Case	165
	The Murder of Miss Pebmarsh	185
	The Affair at the Novelty Theatre	205