The Man in the Corner

In The Man in the Corner, Baroness Orczy introduces one of the most unusual detectives in literary history — a shabby, mysterious old man who sits quietly in a London teashop, solving baffling crimes with nothing more than sharp reasoning and a piece of string he knots absentmindedly as he thinks. Without ever leaving his chair, he unravels cases of theft, murder, and deception that have baffled t...