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Unravelled Knots

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

This final installment features the Old Man in the Corner, an armchair detective who solves mysteries purely for entertainment.

"Unravelled Knots by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy" is a collection of short stories. This final installment features the Old Man in the Corner, an armchair detective who solves mysteries purely for entertainment.

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I cannot pretend to say how it all happened. I can but relate what occurred, leaving those of my friends who are versed in psychic matters to find a plausible explanation for the fact that on that horrible foggy afternoon I chanced to walk into that blameless teashop at that particular hour.

Now, I had not been inside a teashop for years, and I had almost ceased to think of the Old Man in the Corner—the weird, spook-like creature with the baggy trousers, the huge horn-rimmed spectacles, and the thin claw-like hands that went on fidgeting, fidgeting, fidgeting with a piece of string, tying it with nervy deliberation into innumerable and complicated knots.

And yet, when I walked into that teashop and saw him sitting in the corner by the fire, I was hardly conscious of surprise, but I did not think that he would recognise me. So I sat down at the next table to him, and when I thought that he was most intent on fidgeting with his piece of string, I stole surreptitious glances at him. The years seemed to have passed him by; he was just the same; his face no more wrinkled; his fingers were as agile and restless as they had been when last I saw him twenty years ago.

Then all at once he spoke, just as he used to do, in the same cracked voice with the dry, ironic chuckle.

Contents

  1. 01I the Mystery of the Khaki Tunic
  2. 02§1
  3. 03§2
  4. 04§3
  5. 05§4
  6. 06§5
  7. 07II the Mystery of the Ingres Masterpiece
  8. 08§1
  9. 09§2
  10. 10§3
  11. 11III the Mystery of the Pearl Necklace
  12. 12§1
  13. 13§2
  14. 14§3
  15. 15IV the Mystery of the Russian Prince
  16. 16§1
  17. 17§2
  18. 18§3
  19. 19§4
  20. 20V the Mysterious Tragedy in Bishop's Road
  21. 21§1
  22. 22§2
  23. 23§3
  24. 24§4
  25. 25VI the Mystery of the Dog's Tooth Cliff
  26. 26VII the Tytherton Case
  27. 27§1
  28. 28§2
  29. 29VIII the Mystery of Brudenell Court
  30. 30§1
  31. 31§2
  32. 32§3
  33. 33§4
  34. 34IX the Mystery of the White Carnation
  35. 35§1
  36. 36§2
  37. 37§3
  38. 38X the Mystery of the Montmartre Hat
  39. 39§1
  40. 40§2
  41. 41XI the Miser of Maida Vale
  42. 42§1
  43. 43§2
  44. 44§3
  45. 45§4
  46. 46§5
  47. 47XII the Fulton Gardens Mystery
  48. 48§1
  49. 49§2
  50. 50§3
  51. 51§4
  52. 52XIII a Moorland Tragedy
  53. 53§1
  54. 54§2
  55. 55§3
  56. 56§4

About this edition

Author
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
326 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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