The Old Man In The Corner - Softcover

Orczy, Baroness

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755116658 ISBN 13: 9780755116652

Publisher: House of Stratus, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Among the first and greatest armchair detectives...Fun to listen to."

About the Author:

Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor. Shemoved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and then Paris, where she was educated. Orczy alsostudied art in London and exhibited work atthe Royal Academy. Later sheMontagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Fame came in1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel, which was originally a play co-written with her husband. Its background of Revolution in France and swashbuckling hero, 'Sir Percy Blakeney', was to prove immensely popular. Sequels followed and many years later film and TV versions are enduringly popular, with new productions from time to time. However, Orczy alsoalso wrote detective stories which have a following today amongst those intersted in the genre. She died in 1947.

About this edition

• Publisher: House of Stratus
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0755116658
• ISBN 13: 9780755116652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230