The Case of Miss Elliott
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The Case of Miss Elliott was Baroness Orczy's first collection of detective stories. It appeared in 1905 and featured the first of her detective characters, The Old Man in the Corner, who solves myste
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Unravelled Knots
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Unravelled Knots, by Baroness Orczy, author of the Scarlet Pimpernel series, contains thirteen short stories about the Old Man in the Corner, Orzy's armchair detective who solves crimes for his own en
The Case of Miss Elliott
…detective, and although the first published, it is second chronologically. The stories follow those in The Old Man in the Corner and precede those in Unravelled Knots. The Old Man in the Corner stories first appeared in 1901 in The Royal Magazine, with the author receiving the large sum of £60. The stories were…
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