The Old Man in the Corner - Couverture souple

Orczy, Baroness

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782275231 ISBN 13 : 9781782275237

Editeur : Pushkin Vertigo, 2018

Synopsis

A classic collection of cozy Golden Age mysteries from the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel--for fans of Sherlock Holmes and British crime fiction

Mysteries! There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation . . .

So says a rather down-at-heel elderly gentleman to young Polly Burton of the Evening Observer, in the corner of the ABC teashop on Norfolk Street one afternoon. Once she has forgiven him for distracting her from her newspaper and luncheon, Miss Burton discovers that her interlocutor is as brilliantly gifted as he is eccentric--able to solve mysteries that have made headlines and baffled the finest minds of the police without once leaving his seat in the teahouse. As the weeks go by, she listens to him unravelling the trickiest of puzzles and solving the most notorious of crimes, but still one final mystery remains: the mystery of the old man in the corner himself.

The Old Man in the Corner is a classic collection of mysteries, featuring the Teahouse Detective--a contemporary of Sherlock Holmes, with a brilliant mind and waspish temperament to match that of Conan Doyle's creation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Baroness Orczy (1865-1947) was a Hungarian-born British author, best known for her Scarlet Pimpernel novels. Her Teahouse Detective, who features in The Old Man in the Corner, was one of the first fictional sleuths created in response to the Sherlock Holmes stories' huge success. Initially serialised in magazines, the stories in this collection were first published in book form in 1908 and have since been adapted for radio, television and film. Two more collections of Teahouse Detective mysteries are forthcoming from Pushkin Vertigo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Vertigo
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782275231
• ISBN 13: 9781782275237
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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