The Old Man in the Corner
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The Old Man in the Corner is an unnamed armchair detective who appears in a series of short stories written by Baroness Orczy. He examines and solves crimes while sitting in the corner of a genteel Lo
Cover of the 1908 1st edition
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
The Old Man in the Corner
…contains the earliest written stories in the series, they were not collected in book form until four years after the chronologically later stories in The Case of Miss Elliott (1905). The last book in the series is the much later Unravelled Knots (1925). The Old Man concentrates mostly upon sensationalistic newspaper accounts…
First edition cover