Author: Baroness Orczy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book reminds me of Sherlock Holmes or the TV series Monk. I like to go along with the cases and do well at figuring them out. The older ones usually seem to be easier. I like the characters. The man is so smart and a good teacher of the young reporter. The circumstances and mysteries are all interesting.
The Old Man in the Corner
Author: Baroness Orczy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book reminds me of Sherlock Holmes or the TV series Monk. I like to go along with the cases and do well at figuring them out. The older ones usually seem to be easier. I like the characters. The man is so smart and a good teacher of the young reporter. The circumstances and mysteries are all interesting.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book reminds me of Sherlock Holmes or the TV series Monk. I like to go along with the cases and do well at figuring them out. The older ones usually seem to be easier. I like the characters. The man is so smart and a good teacher of the young reporter. The circumstances and mysteries are all interesting.
The Old Man in the Corner
Author: Baroness Orczy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The Old Man in the Corner contains twelve of the stories by Baroness Orczy featuring the mysterious man who sits in the corner of the ABC tea shop fiddling with a piece of string whilst working our the solutions to crimes that have baffled the police. Each case is unfolded during the course of a conversation between the man in the corner and a lady journalist, an ingenious method that avoids the necessity of a clumsy tacked-on explanation of the crime. Apparently Baroness Orczy's husband advised her to create a detective who was as unlike Sherlock Holmes as it was possible for a detective to be. She certainly succeeded. This rather shabby, very eccentric detective is like no other. And he has no interest in helping the police or the courts to bring criminals to justice and in fact never lifts a finger to do so - for him it is purely an intellectual challenge. Which of course means that both the reader and the lady journalist in the tea shop have to accept on faith the old man's solution to these criminal puzzles.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The Old Man in the Corner contains twelve of the stories by Baroness Orczy featuring the mysterious man who sits in the corner of the ABC tea shop fiddling with a piece of string whilst working our the solutions to crimes that have baffled the police. Each case is unfolded during the course of a conversation between the man in the corner and a lady journalist, an ingenious method that avoids the necessity of a clumsy tacked-on explanation of the crime. Apparently Baroness Orczy's husband advised her to create a detective who was as unlike Sherlock Holmes as it was possible for a detective to be. She certainly succeeded. This rather shabby, very eccentric detective is like no other. And he has no interest in helping the police or the courts to bring criminals to justice and in fact never lifts a finger to do so - for him it is purely an intellectual challenge. Which of course means that both the reader and the lady journalist in the tea shop have to accept on faith the old man's solution to these criminal puzzles.
The Old Man in the Corner Illustrated
Author: Baroness Orczy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The character first appeared in The Royal Magazine in 1901 in a series of six "Mysteries of London". The following year he returned in seven "Mysteries of Great Cities" set in large provincial centers of the British Isles. The stories are told by an unnamed lady journalist who reports the conversation of the 'man in the corner' who sits at the same table in the A.B.C. teashop. For the book, twelve were rewritten in the third person, with the lady journalist now named Polly Burton. The title, The Old Man in the Corner (U.S. edition: The Man in the Corner) was given to one of the book collections of the earliest stories. Although it 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).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The character first appeared in The Royal Magazine in 1901 in a series of six "Mysteries of London". The following year he returned in seven "Mysteries of Great Cities" set in large provincial centers of the British Isles. The stories are told by an unnamed lady journalist who reports the conversation of the 'man in the corner' who sits at the same table in the A.B.C. teashop. For the book, twelve were rewritten in the third person, with the lady journalist now named Polly Burton. The title, The Old Man in the Corner (U.S. edition: The Man in the Corner) was given to one of the book collections of the earliest stories. Although it 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 in the Corner Illustrated
Author: Baroness Emma Orczy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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 cin conversation with a female journalist.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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 cin conversation with a female journalist.
The Old Man in the Corner
Author: Baroness Orczy
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781407608655
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781407608655
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Old Man in the Corner Illustrated
Author: Orczy Orczy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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 London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist. He was one of the first of this character-type created in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The character's moniker is used as the title of the collection of the earliest stories featuring the character.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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 London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist. He was one of the first of this character-type created in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The character's moniker is used as the title of the collection of the earliest stories featuring the character.
The Old Man in the Corner Original Edition (Illustrated)
Author: Baroness Emma Orczy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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 London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist. He was one of the first of this character-type created in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The character's moniker is used as the title of the collection of the earliest stories featuring the character.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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 London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist. He was one of the first of this character-type created in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The character's moniker is used as the title of the collection of the earliest stories featuring the character.
The Old Man in the Corner: Complete with Classic Illustrations
Author: Baroness Orczy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy, 1908.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 London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist. He was one of the first of this character-type created in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The character's moniker is used as the title of the collection of the earliest stories featuring the character.The Old Man relies mostly upon sensationalistic newspaper accounts, with the occasional courtroom visit, and relates all this while tying complicated knots in a piece of string. The plots themselves are typical of Edwardian crime fiction, resting on a foundation of unhappy marriages and the inequitable division of family property. Other period details include a murder in the London Underground, the murder of a female doctor, and two cases involving artists living in "bohemian" lodgings. Another new and noteworthy feature is that no one is ever brought to justice. Though the villains are identified by the narrator (who disdains to inform the police), most cannot be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The final story reveals that the Old Man himself is a criminal, due to some of his trademark knotted rope being found at crime scene.The stories included in this volume are:The Fenchurch Street MysteryThe Robbery in Phillimore TerraceThe York MysteryThe Mysterious Death on the Underground RailwayThe Liverpool MysteryThe Edinburgh MysteryThe Theft at the English Provident BankThe Dublin MysteryAn Unparalleled Outrage (The Brighton Mystery)The Regent's Park MurderThe De Genneville Peerage (The Birmingham Mystery)The Mysterious Death in Percy Street
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy, 1908.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 London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist. He was one of the first of this character-type created in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The character's moniker is used as the title of the collection of the earliest stories featuring the character.The Old Man relies mostly upon sensationalistic newspaper accounts, with the occasional courtroom visit, and relates all this while tying complicated knots in a piece of string. The plots themselves are typical of Edwardian crime fiction, resting on a foundation of unhappy marriages and the inequitable division of family property. Other period details include a murder in the London Underground, the murder of a female doctor, and two cases involving artists living in "bohemian" lodgings. Another new and noteworthy feature is that no one is ever brought to justice. Though the villains are identified by the narrator (who disdains to inform the police), most cannot be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The final story reveals that the Old Man himself is a criminal, due to some of his trademark knotted rope being found at crime scene.The stories included in this volume are:The Fenchurch Street MysteryThe Robbery in Phillimore TerraceThe York MysteryThe Mysterious Death on the Underground RailwayThe Liverpool MysteryThe Edinburgh MysteryThe Theft at the English Provident BankThe Dublin MysteryAn Unparalleled Outrage (The Brighton Mystery)The Regent's Park MurderThe De Genneville Peerage (The Birmingham Mystery)The Mysterious Death in Percy Street
The Old Man in the Corner
Author: Emma Orczy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
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 had disapproved of the man from the instant when he shuffled across the shop and sat down opposite to her, at the same marble-topped table which already held her large coffee (3d.), her roll and butter (2d.), and plate of tongue (6d.).Now this particular corner, this very same table, that special view of the magnificent marble hall-known as the Norfolk Street branch of the Aërated Bread Company's depôts-were Polly's own corner, table, and view. Here she had partaken of eleven pennyworth of luncheon and one pennyworth of daily information ever since that glorious never-to-be-forgotten day when she was enrolled on the staff of the Evening Observer (we'll call it that, if you please), and became a member of that illustrious and world-famed organization known as the British Press.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
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 had disapproved of the man from the instant when he shuffled across the shop and sat down opposite to her, at the same marble-topped table which already held her large coffee (3d.), her roll and butter (2d.), and plate of tongue (6d.).Now this particular corner, this very same table, that special view of the magnificent marble hall-known as the Norfolk Street branch of the Aërated Bread Company's depôts-were Polly's own corner, table, and view. Here she had partaken of eleven pennyworth of luncheon and one pennyworth of daily information ever since that glorious never-to-be-forgotten day when she was enrolled on the staff of the Evening Observer (we'll call it that, if you please), and became a member of that illustrious and world-famed organization known as the British Press.
The Old Man in the Corner Illustrated
Author: Emma Orczy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
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 London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
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 London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist.