The Case Of Miss Elliott The Teahouse Detective

Author : Baroness Orczy
Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782275336

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The Case of Miss Elliott: The Teahouse Detective by Baroness Orczy Pdf

A classic collection of mysteries from the Golden Age of British crime writing, by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Mysteries! There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation. So says a rather down-at-heel elderly gentleman to young Polly Burton of the Evening Observer, in the corner of the ABC teashop on Norfolk Street one afternoon. Once she has forgiven him for distracting her from her newspaper and luncheon, Miss Burton discovers that her interlocutor is as brilliantly gifted as he is eccentric—able to solve mysteries that have made headlines and baffled the finest minds of the police without once leaving his seat in the teahouse. The Case of Miss Elliott is a classic collection of mysteries featuring the Teahouse Detective—a contemporary of Sherlock Holmes, with a brilliant mind and waspish temperament to match that of Conan Doyle's creation.

Author : Orczy
Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782275343

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The Case of Miss Elliott: The Teahouse Detective by Orczy Pdf

A classic collection of mysteries from the Golden Age of British crime writing, by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Mysteries! There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation. So says a rather down-at-heel elderly gentleman to young Polly Burton of the Evening Observer, in the corner of the ABC teashop on Norfolk Street one afternoon. Once she has forgiven him for distracting her from her newspaper and luncheon, Miss Burton discovers that her interlocutor is as brilliantly gifted as he is eccentric - able to solve mysteries that have made headlines and baffled the finest minds of the police without once leaving his seat in the teahouse. The Old Man in the Corner is a classic collection of mysteries featuring the Teahouse Detective - a contemporary of Sherlock Holmes, with a brilliant mind and waspish temperament to match that of Conan Doyle's creation.

Author : Baroness Orczy
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338088307

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The Case Of Miss Elliott by Baroness Orczy Pdf

"The Case Of Miss Elliott" was the famed Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright, Baroness Orczy's first collection of detective stories. It featured the first of her detective characters, The Old Man in the Corner, who solves mysteries without leaving his chair. Despite his vanity about his own talents, Bill Owen is a nondescript armchair detective who haunts a corner of the ABC Teashop on the corner of Norfolk Street and the Strand. His listener and protégé is the attractive young journalist Polly Burton. Polly brings him details of obscure crimes baffling the police, which he helps her to solve. The Old Man's cases include a wide range of sensational and complex detective puzzles: murder ("The Tremarn Case"), blackmail ("The Murder of Miss Pebmarsh"), perfect alibis ("The Case of Miss Elliott"), and thefts ("The Affair at the Novelty Theatre").

Author : Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89006404990

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The Case of Miss Elliott by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy Pdf

Author : Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:561849253

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The Case of Miss Elliott. (Third Impression, Popular Edition.). by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy Pdf

Author : Baroness Emma Orczy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:34527609

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The Case of Miss Elliott, and Others by Baroness Emma Orczy Pdf

Author : Baroness Orczy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798679831223

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The Old Man in the Corner Illustrated by Baroness Orczy Pdf

The Old Man in the Corner is an unnamed armchair detective who appears in a series of short stories written by Baroness Orczy. He examines and solves crimes while sitting in the corner of a genteel London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist. He was one of the first of this character-type created in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The character's moniker is used as the title of the collection of the earliest stories featuring the character.

Author : Emmuska Orczy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:917822773

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The Case of Miss Elliott by Emmuska Orczy Pdf

Author : Maddie Day
Publisher : Kensington Cozies
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496715111

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Murder at the Lobstah Shack by Maddie Day Pdf

When murder turns out to be the special of the day at her friend’s seafood restaurant, bicycle shop owner Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida and her fellow book club sleuths have to net a killer . . . From clam chowdahs to oysters on the half-shell, Tulia Peters’ Lobstah Shack offers locals and tourists in Westham, Massachusetts, some of Cape Cod’s most amazing cuisine. But when the body of Annette DiCicero is discovered in the kitchen’s walk-in freezer—with a custom-made claw-handled lobster pick lodged in her neck—spoiled appetites are the least of Tulia’s worries. After a heated public argument with Annette, Tulia is a person of interest in the police’s homicide investigation. To clear Tulia’s name, Mac and the Cozy Capers Book Group snoop into Annette’s personal life. Between her temperamental husband, his shady business partner, and two women tied to Annette’s past life as “Miss New Bedford”, there are now several suspects and multiple motives. And they’re getting crabby about Mac intruding on their affairs. . . Includes Recipes!

Author : Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107199132

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Towns, Ecology, and the Land by Richard T. T. Forman Pdf

A pioneering book highlighting the dynamic environmental dimensions of towns and villages and spatial connections with surrounding land.

Author : Baroness Orczy
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755147694

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Lady Molly Of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy Pdf

Lady Molly’s fiancée is framed for murder and sent to prison. This is the trigger that turns her into one of the best detectives at Scotland Yard. Whilst solving cases, utilising brain rather than brawn, she constantly keeps an eye out for clues that will enable her to undo the injustice.

Author : Baroness Orczy
Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782275893

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Unravelled Knots: The Teahouse Detective by Baroness Orczy Pdf

Another classic collection of mysteries from the Golden Age of British crime writing, by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel It has been twenty years since Polly Burton last saw the Teahouse Detective, but one foggy afternoon she stumbles into a Fleet Street café and chances upon the cantankerous sleuth again. The years have not softened his manner, nor dulled his appetite for unravelling the most tortuous of conspiracies, shedding light on mysteries that have confounded the finest minds of the police. How did Prince Orsoff disappear from his railway carriage in-between stations? How could the Ingres masterpiece be seen in two places at once? And what is the truth behind the story of the blood-stained tunic that exonerated its owner? From the comfort of his seat by the fire, the Teahouse Detective sets his brilliant mind to work once more.

Author : Laura Childs
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451489715

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Haunted Hibiscus by Laura Childs Pdf

Tea maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. It is the week before Halloween and Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, and her tea sommelier, Drayton, are ghosting through the dusk of a cool Charleston evening on their way to the old Bouchard Mansion. Known as the Gray Ghost, this dilapidated place was recently bequeathed to the Heritage Society, and tonight heralds the grand opening of their literary and historical themed haunted house. Though Timothy Neville, the patriarch of the Heritage Society, is not thrilled with the fund-raising idea, it is the perfect venue for his grandniece, Willow French, to sign copies of her new book, Carolina Crimes & Creepers. But amid a parade of characters dressed as Edgar Allan Poe, Lady Macbeth, and the Headless Horseman, Willow's body is suddenly tossed from the third-floor tower room and left to dangle at the end of a rope. Police come screaming in and Theodosia's boyfriend, Detective Pete Riley, is sent to Willow's apartment to investigate. But minutes later, he is shot and wounded by a shadowy intruder. Timothy begs Theodosia to investigate, and shaken by Riley's assault, she readily agrees. Now, she questions members of the Heritage Society and a man who claims the mansion is rightfully his, as well as Willow's book publisher and her fiancé, all while hosting a Sherlock Holmes tea and catering several others. But the Gray Ghost holds many secrets, as do several other key suspects, while this murder mystery plays out on the eve of Halloween. INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES AND TEA TIME TIPS!

Author : Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : UOM:39015009241350

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Unravelled Knots by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy Pdf

Author : Masako Togawa
Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782274100

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The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa Pdf

A dizzying tale of lust, mystery, and murder—from a beloved Japanese crime fiction author and LGBT icon The Lady Killer leads a double life in Tokyo's shadowy underworld. By day, he is a devoted husband and hard worker; by night, he cruises cabaret bars and nightclubs in search of lonely single women to seduce. But now the hunter is being hunted, and in his wake lies a trail of gruesome murders. Who is the culprit? The answer lies tangled in a web of clues—and to find it, he must accept that nothing is what it seems. The Lady Killer pulls from author Masako Togawa’s vibrant personal life as a cabaret performer for Tokyo’s gay nightclub scene during the ‘50s and ‘60s. Throughout her writing career, Togawa continued to champion the LGBT community as a queer woman—sealing her reputation as one of Japan’s most prominent crime fiction authors and LGBT heroines.