Project Gutenberg 2004-01-01 Public domain in the USA. 191 Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness 1865 1947 Orczy, Baroness Emmuska Barstow, Montagu, Mrs. The Old Man in the Corner Reading ease score: 68.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Steven desJardins and PG Distributed Proofreaders "The Old Man in the Corner" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy is a collection of detective stories written in the early 20th century. The book centers around the enigmatic character known as the "old man in the corner," who engages in discussions with a young newspaper reporter, Polly Burton. Their conversations delve into various unsolved crimes, with the old man displaying his sharp intellect and keen deduction skills as he lays bare the motives and methods behind each mystery. At the start of the book, Polly Burton encounters the old man while she enjoys her luncheon at a café. Irked by his assertion that mysteries can be unraveled with intelligence, she challenges him with the infamous Fenchurch Street mystery, which has baffled the police for months. The old man recounts the tale of William Kershaw, who disappears under mysterious circumstances after a series of dubious financial dealings with a wealthy Siberian known as Smethurst. The complexity of the narrative is revealed as the old man weaves details about Kershaw's past, the relationship with his wife, and the suspicious letters exchanged, creating a suspenseful scenario where his deductive prowess promises to shed light on what truly transpired. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Detective and mystery stories, English PR Text Detective Fiction Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 451853 450368 2024-10-05T05:21:32.300533 2023-10-05T06:03:54.648527 text/html text/html 449614 2020-12-20T00:41:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 274619 2020-12-20T00:41:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 358264 2024-10-05T05:21:41.323492 application/epub+zip 366359 2024-10-05T05:21:35.538500 application/epub+zip 232092 2024-10-05T05:21:34.109523 application/epub+zip 729103 2024-10-05T05:21:45.864427 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 696173 2024-10-05T05:21:40.377451 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 379237 2022-09-05T08:30:21.936324 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 427390 427346 2024-10-05T05:21:31.250716 2023-10-05T06:03:53.805536 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 428640 2020-12-20T00:41:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 158669 2020-12-20T00:41:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 428640 2020-12-20T00:41:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 158598 2020-12-20T00:41:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21759 2024-10-05T05:21:46.001426 application/rdf+xml 13437 2024-10-05T05:21:34.670492 image/jpeg 3774 2024-10-05T05:21:34.386485 image/jpeg 348975 2024-10-05T05:21:32.344526 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia