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The Old Man In The Corner (1908)

de Baroness Orczy, Emmuska Orczy

Altres autors: E. F. Bleiler (Editor)

Sèrie: The Teahouse Detective (1)

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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.… (més)
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The Publisher Says: A classic collection of mysteries by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel

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.

I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. THANK YOU.

My Review
: The stories are much of a muchness when read at a gulp, so don't do that! Space them out, one a week or so, and they become less predictable and more pleasantly familiar. I made the mistake of gulping and paid the price of thinking, halfway through, that I would not be finishing the read. I took a long time off, and mirabile dictu, returned with a happy heart.

Pushkin Vertigo does a lot of excellent mystery publishing, though I suspect these very old-fashioned tales won't be bestsellers. They should please us Golden Agers who read Mary Roberts Rinehart.

Kindle editions are only $9.99, and honestly if read as they were originally published...occasionally...you can't have better value for money spent. ( )
  richardderus | Jan 22, 2024 |
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss. ( )
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
A female reporter has ongoing meetings in a teashop with a mysterious stranger who, like Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, solves crimes by deductive reasoning, though for some reason never seems to aid the constabulary to ensure that crime is punished and the wrong suspect is not hanged. I found that the pattern got a bit wearisome towards the end, not sure if it was the stories or me. Overall, enjoyed this much and will likely hunt up another in the series at some point. There is one with Miss Elliott in the title... I feel I must read that one at least. ( )
  JEatHHP | Aug 23, 2022 |
While lunching at the A.B.C. Shop, an old man sitting in the corner strikes up a conversation with reporter Polly Burton. Over time he narrates twelve mysteries which have confounded the police and offers his solutions.
An enjoyable, varied selection of short stories, each one easily read in fifteen minutes which were first published in 1908.
A NetGalley Book ( )
  Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 |
Short stories of crimes, all related by a mysterious knot-tying old man. ( )
  LindaLeeJacobs | Feb 15, 2020 |
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The man in the corner pushed aside his glass, and leant across the table.
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"The Old Man in the Corner: Twelve Mysteries", edited by E. F. Bleiler, published by Dover with the ISBN 0-486-23972-1, is a selection of 12 stories from all the Old Man stories unique to Dover, not a reprint of the 1909 volume titled "The Old Man in the Corner."

This is the 1909 volume and should not be combined with the Dover reprint.
"The Old Man in the Corner: Twelve Mysteries", edited by E. F. Bleiler, published by Dover with the ISBN 0-486-23972-1, is a selection of 12 stories from all the Old Man stories unique to Dover, not a reprint of the 1909 volume titled "The Old Man in the Corner."

Pushkin Vertigo reprinted the 1909 edition in 2018 (ISBN: 978-1-78227-523-7).
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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.

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