The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy Juvenile Fiction, Action & Adventure - Hardcover

Baroness Orczy; Orczy, Baroness Emmuska

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606647326 ISBN 13: 9781606647325

Verlag: Aegypan, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Unusual book

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Reseña del editor:

The Old Man in the Corner (1908) introduces one of the mystery genre's first armchair detectives, and he's a peculiar case himself. He comes out of his corner on page one to intrude on a young woman journalist, Miss Burton of the Evening Observer, at her table in a tea shop. "There is no such thing as a mystery," the Old Man insists, no matter what people read in the penny press. To prove it, he sets about solving a number of crimes the police couldn't. His deductions are based mostly on accounts in the news. The book's inventive premise is the work of the Hungarian Baroness Emmuska Orczy, best-known for her creation of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Her masked hero saved aristocrats, and she gives the Old Man a touch of the upper crust as well. He claims to be "only an amateur," but his disdain for the police is like the king to the commoner. He has a rich man's -- or crazy man's -- eccentricities. He admires a clever crook, and his nervous fingers tie elaborate knots in a piece of string while he mulls the clues. "Now, follow my reasoning point by point . . ." he challenges Miss Burton, and off he goes to out-smart the sharpest criminals in London -- all without leaving the table.

Reseña del editor:

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.

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• Verlag: Aegypan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1606647326
• ISBN 13: 9781606647325
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 188