The Old Man in the Corner - Couverture souple

Orczy, Baroness Emma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1935774638 ISBN 13 : 9781935774631

Editeur : Resurrected Press, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Orczy Baroness Emma

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 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).

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Resurrected Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1935774638
• ISBN 13: 9781935774631
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 266